Ruari McLean — True to Type: A Typographical Autobiography

New Castle, Oak Knoll Press & Werner Shaw, 2000. First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing first edition of this illustrated typographical autobiography from Ruari McLean, with a handwritten letter from the author. First edition. With three handwritten letters from the author to Jerry Cinamon, dated between 12th March and 1st April 2001, with a small reply from Jerry included. Each letter is written on the author's personal headed paper and signed. Illustrated with a frontispiece and numerous in-text images. A typographical autobiography from John David Ruari McDowall Hardie McLean, a British typographic designer. McLean apprenticed in the printing trade at the Shakespeare Head Press, went on to train in Germany and at the Edinburgh School of Printing, and worked at a myriad of presses before joining Penguin Books in 1946, with special responsibility for design of the Puffin range, bringing Tschichold to advise on design. This volume explores his life and career, describing how one man learned how to become a book designer and typographer at a time when it hardly existed as a recognised profession. In the original full cloth binding. Externally, excellent. Original unclipped dust wrapper is also excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine/Fine.