Paperback, 8.5 x 10.5 inches, sixty-four pages. New, in original shrinkwrap.

Published by Harvard College Library, on the occasion of an exhibition of the work of Stephen Harvard held at the Houghton Library, 23 April – 31 May 1990.

Catalogue by David P. Becker, foreword by Richard Wendorf, introduction by Eleanor M. Garvey.

Designed by Christopher Kuntze, title page calligraphy by Christopher Stinehour, printed and bound by The Stinehour Press. The catalogue contains the exhibition checklist of seventy-nine works by Stephen Harvard, including his designs for books, invitations, posters, broadsides, decorated papers, devices and type designs.

The lettering craftsman is apt to be a perfectionist – he is likely to have a crystal clear alphabet somewhere in his mind; a perfect, proportionate set of images that shine with pythagorean light. All of his work in the real world of ink, paper, copper, steel and stone will be an attempt, with varying degrees of success, to approach the ideal unseen letterforms. He is a craftsman who shares something with the artist as well as the mathematician; it is his trade as well as his joy to weigh form and proportion in his mind. – Stephen Harvard

Stephen Harvard (1948-1988) was an award-winning typographer, designer, calligrapher, stone cutter and author. A Director of The Stinehour Press, he was an early collaborator with Adobe in adapting several of his typefaces into digital fonts. He is the author of Ornamental Initials, a catalogue raisonné of the woodcut decorative alphabets of the renaissance printer Christopher Plantin (Godine, 1974) and An Italic Copybook:  The Cataneo Manuscript (Harvard University, 1981). He designed and wrote the descriptions for Alphabets of Grace, also available from the Shop.

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