An Essay on Typography.

Eric Gill was a major artist in several disciplines, including calligraphy, wood-engraving, type design, and typography. He was also a prolific author. His Essay on Typography is a manual of the art, in the vein of earlier books by Moxon and Fournier. The book is also a prime example of Gill’s then novel typographic ideas put into practice: it is set in basically a single size of Gill’s own Joanna type, flush left/rag right.

An Essay on Typography is printed letterpress by Gill and his son-in-law, René Hague. The illustrations and diagrams were cut on wood by Gill.