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detroitlib · 2 years

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Thomas Maitland Cleland (August 18, 1880 – November 9, 1964) American book designer, painter, illustrator, and type designer.

The new Cadillac in which the modern trend of the motor car is embodied in a rich variety of luxurious distinguished models / Cadillac Motor Car Company ; designed and illustrated by T.M. Cleland ; prepared and printed by Evans-Winter-Hebb Inc. Cover title: Cadillac, 1928

Courtesy of the National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library

#thomas maitland cleland #t.m. cleland #design #cadillac #illustration #1927 #1928 #1920s #twenties #roaring twenties #vintage #vintage advertising #vintage illustration #detroit #detroit public library

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uwmspeccoll · 2 months

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It's Fine Press Friday!

This 1932 Limited Editions Club (LEC) publication of the ancient Roman novel The Golden Ass, (also known as the Metamorphoses of Apuleius), was one of the many artist-illustrated classics produced under the direction of American publisher and LEC founder George Macy (1900–1956). It tells the extraordinary and oft unsavory tale of Lucius, a young man experimenting with ancient religious magic who accidentally transforms himself into a donkey instead of a bird- a condition he is able to reverse only after a wild journey of misadventure which concludes with his induction into the cult of Isis.

The novel, originally composed in Latin in the 2nd century by philosopher and scholar Lucius Apuleius (c. 124 CE-c. 170 CE), was translated into English for this edition by writer and social activist Jack Lindsay (1900-1990) and features reproductions of pen and ink illustrations from Percival Goodman (1904-1989), a progressive urban theorist and architect more widely known for his postmodernist architectural renderings and contributions to modern synagogue design.

The book was printed in a limited edition of 1500 copies by John S. Fass (1890-1973) at the Harbor Press in New York, a fine-press printing house founded by Fass and Roland & Elizabeth Wood in 1925, and features type designer Thomas Maitland Cleland’s (1880-1964) elegant Della Robbia typeface in black and red ink on Worthy special paper, illustrated endpapers, and gilding on the top edge of the text block. Goodman’s signature is inscribed in red ink beneath the colophon. The publisher’s announcement included with our copy describes the edition as bound in “full natural ass’s hide”, a characterization critically described by Claire Badaracco in her 1995 book Trading Words: Poetry, Typography, and Illustrated Books in the Modern Literary Economy as “stretching the boundaries of good taste”, but we think that the smooth, gold-stamped cover is quite lovely and understated in person!

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#Fine Press Friday #fine press fridays #Apuleius #The Golden Ass #Limited Editions Club #LEC #Percival Goodman #Jack Lindsay #John S. Fass #Harbor Press #Thomas Maitland Cleland #Della Robbia type #Worthy Paper #fine press books #fine press publishing #Ana

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rfsnyder · 2 years

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CLELAND THOMAS MAITLAND

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poligraf · 1 year

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« The Sea of Matrimony with Principal Points of Peril for Matrimonial Mariners Fairly Well Delineated » by Thomas Maitland Cleland

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frenchcurious · 3 years

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Publicité Cadillac par Thomas Maitland Cleland. 1927. source Swann.

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pwlanier · 2 years

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THOMAS MAITLAND CLELAND

1880 - 1964

RED SPY HUNT

signed TM Cleland and dated 1949 (lower right); also inscribed With affectionate regard to Joe & Lenore Cotten,/January 9, 1951/TM Cleland (on an original label affixed to the reverse)

oil on Masonite

Sotheby’s

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seanos-zone · 4 years

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*CATCHUP* Series: Project 3 Subjects part 5/5

Fortune Magazine

The first 10-15 years of Fortune magazines publication in the 1930s was ahead of its time in terms of cover design (not sure about content but they must have done alright if they survived ‘The Great Depression’). The Financial advice magazine had some of the most beautiful covers for such an (at the time) unimportant part of the magazine. The designs were done by Thomas Maitland Cleland (American book, designer, painter, illustrator and type designer).

But if I were to do an interview with fortune magazine covers, I’m not sure how I would personify it. Maybe I could give the magazine an optimistic persona due to the financial magazine being published during the Great Depression.

Most images are scans from a book I’ve been reading to find my subjects: The History of Graphic Design, Vol.1, 1890-1959

Extra readings:

https://www.printmag.com/publication-design/graphics-for-a-fortune/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Maitland_Cleland

#comm design studies #graphic design #cover design #fortune magazine #1930s

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design-is-fine · 10 years

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Thomas Maitland Cleland, A Grammar of Color, 1921. The Strathmore paper company, USA. The complete book via Linda Hall Library.

Arrangements of papers in a variety of printed color combinations according to the Munsell color system, illustrating the application of the system to work in the graphic arts.

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smallvictories · 12 years

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#Paul Leicester Ford #antique book #vintage book #book cover #Thomas Maitland Cleland #1900s

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uwmspeccoll · 8 months

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Typography Tuesday

Richard J. Hoffman (1912-1989) was a long-standing letterpress printer and collector of type in the Los Angeles area from 1925 until his death in 1989. One of his final projects was this publication, When a Printer Plays, printed in 1987 at his shop in Van Nuys, California in an edition of 200 copies. The book is an historical presentation of fleurons and printers' ornaments with over 200 designs of his own invention made from individual pieces of foundry and monotype units that he collected over more than 50 years. California rare book dealer John Howell called When a Printer Plays Hoffman's magnum opus, noting that "Hoffman lavished the utmost care upon every detail of typesetting, arrangement, margins, proportions, multi-colored patterns, and illustrations."

Hoffman begins with Garamond and Granjon ornaments first designed in the 16th century and moves toward more contemporary ornaments by designers such as Bruce Rogers, Will Bradley, Thomas Maitland Cleland, David Bethel (Glint Ornaments), and Rudolph Ruzicka (Fairfield Ornaments). All the letterpress printers we know delight in creating borders and designs from typographic ornaments, and Hoffman quotes Bruce Rogers:

When my own time comes to be marooned on a desert island . . . instead of taking along the favorite volumes that most amateur castaways vote for, I think I shall arrange to be shipwrecked in company with a Monotype caster and a select assortment of ornamental matrices. The fascination and amusement . . . that can be got out of the almost numberless combinations of a few simple units would enable me to cast away for an indefinite period with great contentment.

Linotype Electra was used for the text in this book, with Deepdene for display. Our copy of When a Printer Plays is yet another donation from the estate of Dennis Bayuzick.

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#Typography Tuesday #typetuesday #decorative type #type ornaments #Richard J. Hoffman #When a Printer Play #type display books #type specimens #type specimen books #ornamental type #fleurons #Bruce Rogers #Linotype Electra #Deepdene type #Dennis Bayuzick

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detroitlib · 2 years

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Thomas Maitland Cleland (August 18, 1880 – November 9, 1964) American book designer, painter, illustrator, and type designer.

The new Cadillac in which the modern trend of the motor car is embodied in a rich variety of luxurious distinguished models / Cadillac Motor Car Company ; designed and illustrated by T.M. Cleland ; prepared and printed by Evans-Winter-Hebb Inc. Cover title: Cadillac, 1928

Courtesy of the National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library

#thomas maitland cleland #t.m. cleland #design #illustration #cadillac #cars #automobiles #auto #auto history #automobile design #vintage #detroit public library #vintage illustration #vintage design #designer #illustrator #design history

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detroitlib · 6 years

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Thomas Maitland Cleland (August 18, 1880 – November 9, 1964)

American book designer, painter, illustrator, and type designer. (Wikipedia)

The new Cadillac in which the modern trend of the motor car is embodied in a rich variety of luxurious distinguished models / Cadillac Motor Car Company ; designed and illustrated by T.M. Cleland ; prepared and printed by Evans-Winter-Hebb Inc. Cover title: Cadillac, 1928.

Courtesy of the National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library

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detroitlib · 7 years

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Thomas Maitland Cleland (August 18, 1880 – November 9, 1964)

American book designer, painter, illustrator, and type designer. (Wikipedia)

The new Cadillac in which the modern trend of the motor car is embodied in a rich variety of luxurious distinguished models / Cadillac Motor Car Company ; designed and illustrated by T.M. Cleland ; prepared and printed by Evans-Winter-Hebb Inc. Cover title: Cadillac, 1928.

Courtesy of the National Automotive History Collection, Detroit Public Library

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