Letters Slate Cut: Workshop practice & the making of letters David Kindersley

Letters Slate Cut: Workshop Practice and the Making of Letters

by David Kindersley, with line drawings by Lida Lopes Cardozo

Pub.  Lund Humphries, 1981.

First edition

Softcover.

36 pages, + 79 plates

Brilliant workbook from David Guy Barnabas Kindersley MBE (1915 – 1995), a British stone letter-carver and typeface designer, and the founder of the Kindersley Workshop (later the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop).

His carved plaques and inscriptions in stone and slate can be seen on many churches and public buildings in the United Kingdom.

Kindersley was a designer of the Octavian font for Monotype Imaging in 1961, and he and his third wife Lida Lopes Cardozo designed the main gates for the British Library.

It contains clear instructions, easy to understand diagrams and straightforward explanations of materials, equipment and techniques.

Very good condition.