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"CONCERNING A BOOK ABOUT W.A.D." Issued by the Southworth Press, ca. 1930-1933.
This is a very interesting small prospectus issued by the Southworth Press in the early 1930s for a book they planned about (and more-or-less by) noted book and type designer W.A. Dwiggins. |
| It notes- “The Southworth Press has undertaken to gather into a
volume a representative collection of the work of W.A. Dwiggins. It is proper to preface
this announcement with the statement that the scheme for such a collection did not
originate with Mr. Dwiggins. It is altogether a Southworth Press idea. Having taken form in the council of the Press, the project was put before Mr. Dwiggins. His rejoinder was that albums of this character, summarizing an artist’s work, appear more gracefully after the artist is dead and done with. The Press, in rebuttal, explained that the proposal was not to undertake a definitive catalog of all his labors, but to assemble a kind of running commentary on the work he was doing. Mr. Dwiggins then said that if the plan of campaign could be modified to make the collection a gallery of the kind of things he liked best to do, then the scheme might march; that such a format, taken together with the fact that the volume proposed to have its office of publication in Portland, Maine and at the Southworth Press, would dissipate any reluctance that he might naturally feel. The Press was glad to admit this modification which was, in fact, no modification of its original plan at all, since that was precisely what it wanted to do.” |
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This prospectus measures 4”x6.5”, has 5 pages and 1 illustration; wrap-around orange covers. A very nice, clean copy.
