A Periodical Of The Visual Arts. Edited By Robert Harling.
£30.00
Publisher
Art and Technics Ltd. 58 Frith Street Soho W1. Printed by the Shenval Press.
Place
London
Date
1948
Synopsis
8. summer 1952.
Item Description
8vo. 9.75 x 7.25 inches. 79 pp. + [1] pp., advertisement, with other advertisements incorporated into the last ten pages. In green pictorial paper wrapper with inside flaps. Wrapper edges and spine, which has small missing section at tail, are sunned. Crossed through college library name at top of outer wrapper. Illustrated by 4 colour plates paginated in text and by text figures in colour and black and white, including wood engravings. Decorated by title page vignette. The last issue of the arts periodical Image after the original Alphabet and Image, separated into Alphabet (typography) and Image (arts) in 1949. It was edited by Robert Harling (1910-2008), typographer, novelist and journalist, and friend of Ian Fleming, who recruited him to work in the Inter-Service Topographical Department in 1941. Harling had an adventurous wartime career and followed Royal Navy service at Dunkirk and with the Atlantic convoys, by visits abroad to collect enemy data, soon after D-Day. Printed by the Shenval Press.
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