{"product_id":"pioneering-printer","title":"Pioneering Printer","description":"\u003cp\u003eLund Humphries, today, is known for publishing books on contemporary art and artists; few know that its roots are in a jobbing printers in Bradford. But Bradford, at the turn of the century, was no provincial backwater, but a city at the centre of the world’s wool industry and Percy Lund Humphries was not merely a jobbing printer serving the local industry, but a progressive firm with ambitions well beyond the boundaries of Yorkshire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn its time it was to publish \u003cem\u003eThe Penrose Annual\u003c\/em\u003e, an essential read for those interested in printing and the graphic arts and Typographica, the most avant garde journal on typography; it mounted extraordinary exhibitions in its grand London office in Bedford Square it carried type for languages across the world, crucial for the governments need for language textbooks for those serving overseas in WWII; and much more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Pioneering Printer, Lund Humphries of Bradford\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e tells its remarkable story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Artmonsky Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54227322110296,"sku":"9781916384552","price":16.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781916384552.jpg?v=1764333040","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/pioneering-printer","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}