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'The Case for Legibility' Lecture

MS. 21435/64

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Title

'The Case for Legibility' Lecture

Shelfmark

MS. 21435/64

Summary

Comprises:

Notes, drafts, and reading copies of 'The Case for Legibility' lecture for The Publishers Association (1978), with associated correspondence. Adjusted for a lecture to the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1978.

Revised reading copy of 'The Case for Legibility' for Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 1979, with list of slides and associated correspondence, 1978-1979.

Material relating to various dustjackets including Graham Greene's The Honorary Consul, An Impossible Woman, and May We Borrow Your Husband?, and Lorenza Mazetti's Rage collected as illustrations for The Case for Legibility (1979).

Date

1978-1979

Language

English

Physical extent

1 box (3 folders)

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The John Ryder Archive

John Ryder: Professional Papers

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