The Work of Stephen Harvard: A Life in Letters

by David P. Becker

Calligrapher, stonecutter, illustrator, and type designer, Stephen Harvard's art and craftsmanship were rooted equally in the history of the book and the natural world. At his untimely death in 1988, Harvard left both a collection of graphic works and a body of prose that explored his dream of an ideal alphabet, "a perfect, proportionate set of images that shine with a pythagorean light," a dream that Harvard found as compelling and impossible "as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914630040
• ISBN13: 9780914630043
• Release Date: March 2005
• Publisher: Houghton Library
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 10.5"