Lettering and Calligraphy

Lettering and Calligraphy

in Current Advertising and Publishing

1945 exhibition catalogue

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(Next post August 3: 1979 Calligrapher’s Engagement Calendar)

The Zulu and the Zeide

Dan Jacobson
Atlantic Little Brown, 1959
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(Next post July 30: Lettering and Calligraphy)

Jeanyee's Birthday

Jeanyee was born on July 22. In 2010, her 90th birthday was celebrated at the Grolier Club; an account of it is here.

NewSoS
Volume 26, Number 5, Fall 2001
Cover map and six-page conversation
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(Next post July 26: The Zulu and the Zeide)

Let’s Make Something

Harry Zarchy
Alfred A. Knopf, 1941
Jeanyee’s first professional assignment was hand-lettering all the text.
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The Inland Printer

June 1943

page 29: Books-by-Offset Exhibit Shows Advances in This Field

... Another book, listed among the juveniles, was “Let’s Make Something,” 

by Harry Zarchy, published by Alfred A. Knopf, this being hand-lettered 

in a caligraphic [sic] hand by Jean-yee Wong.

(Updated September 16, 2023; next post July 22: Jeanyee’s Birthday)

The Pocket Book of Old Masters

Herman J. Wechsler, editor
Pocket Book, 1949
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(Next post July 20: Let’s Make Something)

Day of the False Dragon

Alice Margret Huggins
Westminster Press, 1953
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(Next post July 16: The Pocket Book of Old Masters)

1978 Calligrapher’s Engagement Calendar

Society of Scribes
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(Next post July 12: Day of the False Dragon)

The God That Lived in the Kitchen

Frances Carpenter
Best in Children’s Books #24
Doubleday, 1960
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(Next post July 8: 1978 Calligrapher’s Engagement Calendar)