The King's Jubilee Broadcast 1935 : design, typography & printing by the students of the City of Birmingham School of Printing under the direction of Leonard Jay : title page

            From the 1936 Penrose Annual comes this wonderful item of typography and printing that is tipped in as one of the representative samples for the year 1935.

The pages are the work of the students of the various classes of the City of Birmingham's School of Printing under the direction of Leonard Jay. As noted the piece is set in Monotype's 16-point Aldine Bembo on Monotype machines under the direction of T Gill and H Bracey. The teachers H C Page and F G Moseley oversaw the Compositors' work and the fine Royal Arms were drawn by S Hackett, lettering by Olga Garner and T Botham under the supervision of A Michael Fletcher. The whole inset was printed by the students of the Letterpress Machine classes under V S Ganderton.

The UK had many municipal colleges that offered printing classes - the City of Birmingham being one that had a dedicated School of Printing. It was recognised as being one of the major such schools along with others such as the Central or Camberwell in London and Leicester.

Leonard Jay (1888 - 1963) had started his career in printing as an apprentice in 1905 before becoming a teacher at the Central School of Arts & Crafts in London after 1912. In 1925 he was appointed Head of the new Birmingham school, a post he retained until retirement in 1953. He is acknowledged as being one of the most pre-eminent printers in the city's history and the quality of work he inspired at the School, that is widely recognised, is seen here.

Taken on: May 29, 2022

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