Title: RHM, Robert Hunter Middleton, the man and his letters :
Authors: Middleton, R. Hunter; Caxton Club.
Date: 1985
Publisher: Caxton Club,
Physical description: ix, 100 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language: English
LC class: Z
Abstract: This book marks the reappearance of the Caxton Club as a publisher. It is also the result of a long effort to celebrate the life and the work of Robert Hunter Middleton, a Chicago designer of typefaces and a craftsman of the book arts. He has contributed much to his profession, to graphic design throughout the world, and, incidentally, to the Caxton Club. His career, from 1924 to the preset, spans a period which began when the production of metal type as a historical craft was at a zenith and continued into a time when changes in production technique and attitude have revolutionized the design and use of typefaces. Middleton's work and his influence on other professionals, will continue to assist in the transition to a new age of typography where historical values and new creativity may produce an integrated art. The authors of these essays are respected members of their various professions: librarian, scholar, type designer, printer, graphic designer and writer-filmmaker. They have all known Middleton for many years and have worked with him or have written about him in the past.
Contents: The man and his career / James M. Wells -- Type designer / John Schappler -- Organizer and catalyst / Herbert Pinzke -- The Lexington connection / Carolyn Reading Hammer -- The Bewick blocks / Gordon Williams -- Cherryburn / R. Russell Maylone -- A summing-up / Rhodes Patterson.
Notes: Includes index.