Halcyon, No. 5

OK. Bear with us. Halcyon was journal of printing and graphic arts in the Netherlands. There were good issues. There were less interesting issues. The thing about this particular issue, however, is that it features a small showing of lettering historic and recent, prepared by Stefan Schlesinger—although one wouldn’t know that because, as a Jew (who would ultimately die in the camps) his name was omitted from the contents and replaced by three asterisks. Included are Chappell, Weiss, Schneidler, Julius Klinger, Bernhard, Imre Reiner and Dwiggins. Lettercomposities as this graphic essay was called, is loose, as were all the articles in this issue. Other articles cover printer’s marks in Dutch incunabula, Vesalius, Jan Goeree, Dirk Harting, and Japanese prints. But, really, the slender Lettercomposities by Schlesinger is what concerns us here.