[Rarebooks] FS: W.A. Dwiggins & the Southworth Press

[Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA]

"CONCERNING A BOOK ABOUT W.A.D."
         Issued by the Southworth Press, ca. 1930-1933.

This is a very interesting small prospectus issued by the Southworth Press 
in the early 1930s for a book they planned about (and more-or-less by) 
noted book and type designer W.A. Dwiggins. It notes-

"The Southworth Press has undertaken to gather into a volume a 
representative collection of the work of W.A. Dwiggins. It is proper to 
preface this announcement with the statement that the scheme for such a 
collection did not originate with Mr. Dwiggins. It is altogether a 
Southworth Press idea. Having taken form in the council of the Press, the 
project was put before Mr. Dwiggins. His rejoinder was that albums of this 
character, summarizing an artist's work, appear more gracefully after the 
artist is dead and done with. The Press, in rebuttal, explained that the 
proposal was not to undertake a definitive catalog of all his labors, but 
to assemble a kind of running commentary on the work he was doing. Mr. 
Dwiggins then said that if the plan of campaign could be modified to make 
the collection a gallery of the kind of things he liked best to do, then 
the scheme might march; that such a format, taken together with the fact 
that the volume proposed to have its office of publication in Portland, 
Maine and at the Southworth Press, would dissipate any reluctance that he 
might naturally feel. The Press was glad to admit this modification which 
was, in fact, no modification of its original plan at all, since that was 
precisely what it wanted to do."

This prospectus measures 4"x6.5", has 5 pages and 1 illustration; 
wrap-around orange covers. A very nice, clean copy of a scarce and 
interesting item.  $50.00

Some pictures-
<http://www.joslinhall.com/WAD.htm>



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