Frederic Warde was a book designer, editor, and typography designer.
10 Facts About Frederic Warde
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Frederic Warde was born Arthur Frederick Ward on July 29,1894, in Wells, Minnesota, and changed his name to Frederic Warde in 1926.
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From 1922 to 1924 Frederic Warde was Printer for Princeton University.
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Frederic Warde had met Beatrice Becker in 1919, and they married in 1924 and left for Europe to study typography.
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Once in England, they met Charles Hobson of the Cloister Press in Manchester, and through him Stanley Morison, who offered Frederic Warde work designing and writing for The Fleuron and the Monotype Recorder.
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Frederic Warde designed a revival of the chancery cursive letter forms of Renaissance calligrapher Ludovico degli Arrighi.
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In 1926 Mardersteig printed The Calligraphic Manual of Ludovico Arrighi - complete Facsimile, with an introduction by Stanley Morison, which Frederic Warde issued in Paris while working for the Pleiad Press.
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Frederic Warde returned to America permanently, and he worked again for William Edwin Rudge from 1927 to 1932.
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Frederic Warde designed for private presses such as Crosby Gaige, the Watch Hill Press, Bowling Green Press, the Limited Editions Club and Heritage Press.
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Frederic Warde died in Manhattan, New York on July 31,1939.