Typography Tuesday
Born in 1923, and after a career as a textbook publisher and graphic designer, Chicago-based printer Muriel Underwood came late to book making and letterpress printing in 1990. In 1995, she printed this little book, A Little Bit About Punctuation and Other Funny Marks, in Chicago under her Miscellaneous Graphics imprint in a limited edition of 90 copies signed by the printer.
She began research on punctuation in 1979 at the Newberry Library and continued intermittently there and in Special Collections at the Chicago Public Library, now the Harold Washington Library. Printing for this book began in the Type Shop of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, which she had attended after her discharge from the Marines in 1946, and finished in a friend's basement, using a Chandler & Price treadle press at each place. The typeface is 10 pt. Centaur with illustrations in "large metal type adn cuts made from art from numerous sources."
Our copy is a donation from the estate of our late friend, printer and collector Dennis Bayuzick.
Now this is a joyful printer!!
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