[a packet of specimens from Stevens, Shanks & Sons] IvesItems Peter Bugden

Peter Bugden

Just think how hard it is to put our twenty-six letters to good use

color printing (including something they call “wax engraving”)

The text in black seems to advocate for using German type to reveal the German character at home and abroad

and an important designer (Zahn)

[a packet of specimens from Stevens, Shanks & Sons] IvesItems Peter BugdenFonts in Use reports that the English foundry Stevens, Shanks & Sons was formed in 1933 after merging P. M. Shanks and Sons with Figgins. And thats all we know about this foundry because weve not done any more research. Weve just looked at whats in front of us. We count nine cards with full alphabet showings of historic metal types. Were talking Antique 3 and Antique 5 and Clarence Condensed and Figgins Shaded and Antique 6 and so on. (Were looking at