[3 book covers by Josef Capek] spacetype and typographer Victor Hammer has

and typographer Victor Hammer has died

He designed books and typefaces

having been cast roughly between 1870–and the 1920s

This went on for the better part of the day while the students watched

Jedediah Wheeler EX LIBRIS

[3 book covers by Josef Capek] spacetype and typographer Victor Hammer hasJosef Capek was a Czech painter, writer, and poet. He invented the word robot. No joke. An outspoken anti fascist, he died in the Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp in Lower Saxony. But before that, he designed hundreds of book covers. Here are three, the titles of which are (roughly) Little Fairy Tales for Little Readers, Aristophanes: Assemblywomen, and The Tower of Love. Weve got here a good representation of his work with hand drawn, slightly nave