Description: Cloth, 8vo, xvi, 192 pp, ills. From the blurb: "This new addition to the Ars Typographica Library traces the life and work of J. H. Mason from his humble beginnings to recognition as one of die great scholar-printers of this century. His introduction to printing came as an apprentice compositor at the Ballantyne Press, and Mason moved from there to the Doves Press where he worked in close collaboration with T. J. Cobden-Sanderson and Sir Emery Walker. Walker's influence on printing, and on the work and destiny of Mason, was profound, and particularly affected Mason's move to the Central School and the establishment of the first Printing Day Technical School. This important period of Mason's work is dealt with at length and well illustrated. Mason also worked with Count Kessler at the Cranach Press, and collaborated with such other eminent figures as Gordon Craig, Eric Gill, Edward Johnston and J. B. Prince. His contributions to The Imprint magazine, and the designing of Imprint type, reveal his typographic creed. Largely self-educated, Mason was a life student of languages and of letter-forms. He was also an inveterate note-taker and, by quoting freely from these notes, Leslie Owens penetrates to the heart of Mason's work. Minor foxing to prelims and final page, otherwise Very Good in slightly used dustwrapper. 0584103530