Harry Carter (typographer)

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Harry Graham Carter
Born27 March 1901
Died10 March 1982(1982-03-10) (aged 80)
Nationality
Typographer
ChildrenMatthew Carter

Harry Graham Carter (27 March 1901 – 10 March 1982) was an English

translator and writer.[1] He was a well-known historian of type.[2] He was the father of type designer Matthew Carter
.

Biography

Carter studied at the progressive Bedales School (where he was a friend of John Rothenstein), and at The Queen's College, Oxford "where he became competent in French, German, Spanish, and Russian".[3] (He would later learn Arabic, and design a Hebrew font.) Though he was studying law, Carter became interested in typography and bought a printing press.

His first work with type came in 1928 and 1929 as an apprentice at the

Kynoch Press
in Birmingham. In 1931 he and Herbert Simon published Printing Explained.

From 1936 to 1938 he worked at the Nonesuch Press in London, as Meynell's book-designer. His son, Matthew Carter, was born in 1937. In 1937, Carter, Ellic Howe, Alfred F. Johnson, Stanley Morison and Graham Pollard started to produce a list of all known pre-1800 type specimens. The list was published in The Library in 1942.[4] However, because of the war, many libraries on the European continent were not accessible anymore. In 1942 he translated Erasmus' In Praise of Folly into English.[5]

During

Plantin-Moretus Museum
, and assisted Charles Enschede with his Typefoundries in the Netherlands.

Carter was the author and editor of books and articles on typography and the history of type. Notable among his writings are, The Wolvercote Mill: a study of paper-making at Oxford (1957); A View of Early Typography: Up to about 1600, (1969); and A History of the Oxford University Press. Volume I: To the Year 1780 (1975).

Further reading

  • Thomas, Martyn;
    OCLC 60667540
    .

References

  1. ^ a b "Harry Carter < Hyphen Press". Hyphenpress.co.uk. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  2. ^ "Harry Carter, man of type: St Bride Library". Stbride.org. Archived from the original on 17 September 2008. Retrieved 29 February 2012.
  3. ^ "Fine Press Book Association". Fpba.com. Retrieved 18 June 2012.
  4. doi:10.1093/library/s4-XXII.4.185
    .
  5. ^ Office, Library of Congress Copyright (19 August 1973). "Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1971: January-June". Copyright Office, Library of Congress – via Google Books.

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