Gill also created Gillsans, Joanna and Aries, all of which I have used in
book design. Perpetua is in common use.
As both an art dealer and a book designer I have feet in both camps. Gill's
most important work, I think, and certainly his most influential, is as a
maker of books, including his illustrations of same. He is revered among
the makers of fine books--one of the great typographers and designers of
the (now) last century.
I have a copy of his marvelous Hamlet, commissioned by the Limited Editions
Club. Worth searching out. He amde wonderful use of ampersands, by the way.
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>On a related topic, it's only in the past month that I've discovered
>that the Perpetua typeface widely used by Faber in the earlier
>days was designed by the British artist Eric Gill -- having admired
>both the typeface and this artist's work for many years without
>making the link.
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>And 'The Triumph of Love' is also the first book of poems I've
>seen for over ten years which uses Perpetua (a backwards nod
>to the Faber Eliot maybe?) . . . . last thing I remember buying
>in that font was the Greville Press edition of W.S. Graham's
>Uncollected Poems . . .
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