I Hope Yet to Produce Good Work

A letter by FREDERIC GOUDY

2026 / Limited Edition Book / VH0031

¶ While reading Dard Hunter’s memoir My Life with Paper (Knopf, 1958), I came across a partial transcript of a letter that Hunter received from the noted American type designer Frederic Goudy in 1923. Hunter operated a small paper mill in the neighbourhood of Marlborough, New York, between 1913 and 1917, which Goudy had viewed while property scouting in rural New York State with the intention of establishing his own microfoundry. Goudy was fifty-eight years old at the time he was embarking upon this major transition in his career. This little book includes the except from Goudy’s letter and a brief commentary written by myself.

Specifications: Typeset in Linotype Janson. Printed in black, green and grey on Hahnemühle Bugra mouldmade paper. The sheets were folded, gathered with doubled endpapers, handsewn and trimmed to 13  × 21.5 cm. Casebound with cloth spine and brown Hahnemühle Bugra printed pattern paper over boards. Black paper label on the front board printed in grey. Issued in a printed paper wrapper.

12 pages + doubled endpaper sections
Limited edition of 80 numbered copies­
CND $75 + shipping & taxes

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