This kit provides a step-by-step look at how R. Stanley Nelson created a lowercase letter e for a typeface he designed called Robin. He began by creating a punch to form a matrix into which type metal was poured. Using a soft steel rod (1) that he…
A burlesque of Napoleon's grievances against England. The print is making fun of the famous scene made by the First Consul at a levée on 13 March 1803, when he reproached John Whitworth, then British Ambassador to Paris, with the conduct of the…
These two cuneiform tablets are by far the oldest objects in the Grolier Club Library. Cuneiform is one of the earliest systems of writing, invented by the Sumerians in ancient Mesopotamia in the late fourth millennium BCE. It was largely replaced by…
Cruikshank was famous for singing the Ballard, about a dandy lord’s romantic adventure in Turkey recited by a cockney dustman, at many an evening with friends. In 1839, he decided to write it up and illustrate it for publication. By that time,…