Beatrice Warde: “First Lady of Typography” – History in the Margins

This is a

Printing Office

Crossroads of Civilization

Refuge of all the arts

against the ravages of time

Armoury of fearless truth

against whispering rumour

Incessant trumpet of trade

From this place words may fly abroad

Not to perish on waves of sound

Not to vary with the writer’s hand

But fixed in time having been verified in proof

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