[14 silver print portraits of Frederic W. Goudy]

It’s possible we’ve not dug as deeply as we should in order to find out who took these pics of Frederic W. Goudy. One of them was used as the frontispiece for Goudy’s Type Designs and the credit there goes to Earl Emmons (1888–1949), a printer and devotee of Goudy. Almost 300 of his glass plate negatives are held at R.I.T.—which is where we suspect these prints came from. How they came to be made or end up with designer Howard Gralla (R.I.T. ’68), we are unable to say. What we can say, however, is how they’ll end up with you: You give us money and we give them to you. Goudy might not be our favorite designer, but these are excellent prints that show the man at work. We should probably arrange them above in the order in which type is made. Maybe we will. Goudy knew how to do it all. The least we can do is get the pics in some sort of sequential order.