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Edward Johnston demonstration sheet
Demonstration sheet by by Edward Johnston, '56 a's made as wrongly as possible', 1931. Two pages on paper, written in a massive foundational hand in blue-black ink. Annotations are written in an italic hand in red ink. This page shows 24 a's.
In a tribute to her father given at the Art Workers' Guild in 1945, Bridget Johnston mentioned how "few .. were more acutely aware than he of how the order in which a thing was done affects the thing itself. He calculated that there were no less than 56 different ways in which the ordinary Small-letter a could be made, according to the order in which the strokes were written, only one of them being the correct way".
Image copyright © Andrew and Angela Johnston/Crafts Study Centre 2004, and courtesy of VADS.
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