LONDON KERNING URLS & errata
Hello, reader of the ebook edition of London Kerning! Download this single-page PDF of all the links in the book, or you may find them below. I’ve also listed at the top any errata found, which are corrected in updated ebook versions. (Consult the copyright page of your ebook for a link and password to download an updated version.)
Errata
The first printing of the print edition had one error, fixed in version 1.1.0 of the ebook and in the second printing.
page 15
Albertus was inspired from bronze inscriptions that Wolpe had made, but those inscriptions weren’t on a bell. (The bell, from the same era, had Fraktur (Gothic) style type.)
Book Links
The following is a list of all URLs that appear in London Kerning in the order they appear by page and on the page.
page 1 (copyright notice)
page 12
Yale’s Arts of the Book Collection
page 18
The most boring commemorative sign
page 21
Aspects of a style called Fraktur
The Bixler Press and Letterfoundry in New York
page 25
Monotype’s Wolpe Collection video
page 28
(caption) Photo by Alexander Baxevenis
page 34
A 2005 obituary of Justin Howes in the Guardian
page 36
The Bridewell Theatre’s seats on a hidden wooden framework
page 38
Inland Printer describing St Bride Foundation Institute
page 39
page 42
page 43
(caption) The Sun edition that made workers quite ill.
page 46
The Type Archive’s Collections page
page 58
The Crystal Goblet (or Printing Should Be Invisible)
The recovery of the Doves Press type
page 65
The Electric Recording Company
page 67
The book, Makers of East London
page 71–72, BiBliographic links
“Take Courage, Southwark,” Painted Signs and Mosaics, March 5, 2010
“St Bride Foundation: Where Fleet Street Learned to Print,” London Historians, Ursula Jeffries, Dec. 2011
“The fight over the Doves,” the Economist, Dec.19, 2013
“The St Bride Foundation: the curators of the past set for future glory,” Print Week, Jenny Roper, Feb. 28, 2013
“Louis John Pouchée alphabets,” 8Faces, Jamie Clarke, Feb. 10, 2014
“Albertus and The Prisoner,” We Made This, Alistair Hall, Feb. 26, 2015
“Meet Berthold Wolpe, the Designer Behind Faber & Faber’s Distinctive Book Covers,” Eye on Design at AIGA, Ellen Himmelfarb, May 27, 2015
“Major cutbacks for St Bride Foundation Library,” The Bookseller, Benedicte Page, Aug. 5, 2015
“Johnston Sans: The Tube typeface that changed everything,” BBC, Dan Damon, March 30, 2016
Berthold Wolpe entry at German Designers, Gerald Cinamon
“Doves Press Font Revived by Robert Green,” Typespec
Klingspor Museum biography of Wolpe
Lanston Type Company history and ownership, p22 Type Foundry
“Ornamented Type: Twenty-three alphabets from the foundry of Louis John Pouchée,” I.M. Imprimit
“The Roundel,” Transport for London (TfL)
St Bride Foundation site, blog entries and articles
Catalogue of the William Blades Library, compiled by John Southward, 1899
A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 2, General, 1911, entry on “Printing,” via British History Online
page 73, acknowledgements
Type designer Toshi Omagari of Monotype
Donate to the St Bride Library
Richard Ardagh and Graham Bignell, New North Press
Robert Green, The Doves Type
Keith Houston, author of Shady Characters and The Book
David Marshall and Elizabeth Ellis, The Counter Press