Notes

A very professionally produced manual on lettering issued by the Ontario Department of Education. Frank [Franklin] Carmichael and Arthur Lismer, two future Group of Seven artists, were involved in the preparation of this booklet. Fourteen years earlier another Group of Seven founder, J. E. H. MacDonald, had written a lettering manual for the Shaw School in Toronto. The original members of the Group of Seven met when they were employed as commercial artists and designers at the Toronto engraving firm of Grip Ltd.

Both the typography and the typesetting in this manual are more accomplished than was the norm at the time, leading us to believe that this booklet may have been typeset at Cooper & Beatty, then newly formed in Toronto. All the typefaces used were in their library. – Rod McDonald

Text (from page 1)

The basic material of this and other Art Bulletins was prepared by The National Institute of Arts.

Later, the Department of Education of Ontario, acting upon the advice of several experts in art and in teaching, acquired the rights and revised the material.

These Bulletins are issued to any persons in the Province of Ontario who are interested in any of the phases of art covered by the Bulletins, and desirous of self-improvement.

It is the hope of the Department of Education that the matter and the illustrations are sufficiently clear and simple to enable the individual to work out the elements of the subject himself.

Messers. Ralph McMullen, H. McCrea, Herbert Palmer, Frank Carmichael, Arthur Lismer, Alfred Howell, and S. W. Perry have all had some part in the preparation of these Bulletins.

Copies of the Bulletin may be obtained free on application to the Department of Education, Parliament Buildings, Toronto

Bulletins previously issued:
Elementary Perspective – Number One.
Drawing – Number Two.