Lund Humphries, today, is known for publishing books on contemporary art and artists; few know that its roots are in a jobbing printers in Bradford. But Bradford, at the turn of the century, was no provincial backwater, but a city at the centre of the world’s wool industry and Percy Lund Humphries was not merely a jobbing printer serving the local industry, but a progressive firm with ambitions well beyond the boundaries of Yorkshire.<\/p>\n
In its time it was to publish The Penrose Annual<\/em>, an essential read for those interested in printing and the graphic arts and Typographica, the most avant garde journal on typography; it mounted extraordinary exhibitions in its grand London office in Bedford Square it carried type for languages across the world, crucial for the governments need for language textbooks for those serving overseas in WWII; and much more.<\/p>\n A Pioneering Printer, Lund Humphries of Bradford<\/em><\/strong> tells its remarkable story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This fully illustrated title tells the remarkable story of printing pioneer Lund Humphries of Bradford.
Foreword 7
\nPercy Lund and Edward Walter Humphries 9
\nThe Bradford works 17
\nEric Beresford Humphries and Eric Craven Gregory 25
\nThe London base 33
\nPenrose Annual 39
\nThe Bedford Square exhibitions 47
\nHerbert Spencer and Typographica 59
\nArt book publishing 67
\nA jobbing printer to the end 73
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