A Printer with My Hands: The Life and Work of Carl P. Rollins WADitems Washington

Washington

but probably he designed just about everything from this period

making these letterforms available for copying

” is the title of a brief autobiography that Ben Bos wrote a few years back at the request of the publisher

A Printer with My Hands: The Life and Work of Carl P. Rollins WADitems WashingtonAs a member of a network of printers, designers, and bibliophiles associated with the Renaissance in American Printing, Carl Purington Rollins (18801960) helped transform graphic design and bibliographic studies in the United States. By applying the ideals of the Arts and Crafts Movement and design principles based on historical precedents to contemporary books and ephemera, this group of practitioners influenced the appearance of printed materials in