Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Johnson, Samuel, 1709-1784
Title:
The new London letter writer : containing the compleat art of corresponding with ease, elegance, and perspicuity as is now practised by all persons of respectability / by Samuel Johnson, M.A. ; foreword and decorations by Averil Mackenzie-Grieve.
Published / Created:
London : The Golden Cockerel Press, 1948.
Physical Description:
63, [1] pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
"The New London letter writer has been designed, produced, and published by Christopher Sandford, at the Golden Cockerel Press, London, in Caslon's Old Face type on Arnold's mould-made paper. Composition and presswork by W.S. Cowell Ltd, of Ipswich, under the supervision of Geoffrey Smith. The edition is limited to 500 numbered copies. Nos. 1-100 are specially bound."--Colophon.
Subject Terms:
Letter writing. | English language -- Rhetoric. | Private press books -- England -- London -- Specimens. | Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil -- Autograph.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1948. | Private press books (Publishing) -- England -- London.
Contributors:
Mackenzie-Grieve, Averil , engraver. | Golden Cockerel Press, publisher. | Sandford, Christopher, book designer. | W.S. Cowell Ltd., pressman.