27 MAY 1922, Page 23

The supplement on The Craft of Printing published by the

Manchester Guardian on Tuesday is the most attractive pro- duction ever issued by any daily newspaper. It is a real pleasure to see good articles set in beautiful type, well spaced and en- livened with reproductions of fine modern book-work and of old title-pages. The Cloister Press, of Heaton Mersey, which designed and produced the supplement, deserves the thanks of all who are interested in printing and look for a revival of the art in England. The articles deal in part with the history of typography but are mainly concerned to persuade the publisher and the advertiser that good printing is well worth its cent. This ought to be a truism, but is in fact a much-neglected truth.