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A poster of the turn of the century.
`Reproductions of life in Birmingham, etc' were
overprinted locally which accounts for the twist in the
perspective.
`YOU : not yet a member of the co-operative!'
A 'Kitchener wants you derivative'— USSR c1923

Posters at the turn of the century
Posters of the nineteen-twenties

Maurice Rickards new ways with gold foil by Harold Hunter; and a
Evelyn, Adams and Mackay 18s each review by John Dreyfus ( and display) of `Sabon'— Jan
These two books trip lightly over the Dancing Years. Tschichold's new typeface.
They set out, frankly perhaps, to be nostalgic historical
entertainments—rather on the lines of those home
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service programmes that are forever treading on our distributed by Erik C. Lindgren, Bredgade 51,
heels, mixing the musical gems of 1926 with the setting Copenhagen K.
up of the Central Electricity Board. In these books A lot of useful scholarship for bibliophiles who
posters are the sugar coating to fairly soft centres. can find their way through the Danish text of this
Is this of any use to a designer ? Are they meant as crib journal of the Danish Bibliographic Society.
sheets for the 'avant garde' copyist ? Unlikely; our There are well illustrated appreciations of the book
rubricators of the Sunday Paper comics are now designs of Stanley Morison, Steen Eiler Rasmussen
dabbling their brushes in the 1940s and besides the ( of architectural fame), and William Morris.
examples here aren't good enough.
There is one `Daubrey Weirdsley', but Stanley Morison
had the measure of that line of country : 'certain fin-de-
siècle circles believe that style is more important than
thought—this is a heresy.' We are promised a further
book by Mr Rickards on 'Posters of the Great War'
nicely timed for the 50th anniversary of the Armistice—
it will be much more expensive ( these two are cheap
at 18s). I hope it will be much more useful.

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