[14 silver print portraits of Frederic W. Goudy] cyrusprints What a pleasure are handsome

What a pleasure are handsome letters

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In this limited edition of Why Stamps

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showcasing Dürer’s woodcuts that demonstrate how to draft each letter within a square using only a compass and a rule

[14 silver print portraits of Frederic W. Goudy] cyrusprints What a pleasure are handsomeIts possible weve not dug as deeply as we should in order to find out who took these pics of Frederic W. Goudy. One of them was used as the frontispiece for Goudys Type Designs and the credit there goes to Earl Emmons (18881949), a printer and devotee of Goudy. Almost 300 of his glass plate negatives are held at R. I. T.which is where we suspect these prints came from. How they came to be made or end up with designer Howard Gralla (R. I. T. 68), we