BEATRICE WARDE

1900 - 1969

The Crystal Goblet (published in 1955)

Beatrice's 'This is a Printing Office' was well recognized that it was placed at the entrance to the United States Government Printing Office

1925

Beatrice married Frederic Warde

1927

Beatrice hungout with eminent typographers of her time like Daniel Berkeley Updike and Stanley Morison. She was good friends with Eric Gill

with Stanley Morison

Daniel Berkeley Updike

Eric Gill

Location map of Beatrice Warde’s Pimlico Wharf address, designed and cut by her close friend Eric Gill as a greetings card, Christmas 1934.

(Archive of St Bride Library, London)

London 1966, Beatrice in a flowery hat

Spool of magnetic tape recording the Australian radio interview with Warde discovered by Sara De Bondt at St Bride Library

"The great thing about printing is it should be invisible. You should know what the author or the writer is saying, and not be adversely affected by any show-off-ism or ugliness or sloppy look about the medium through which his words are being conveyed."

Beatrice Warde