Quote of the day
There is not only no free state which would now establish it, but there is no slave state, which, if it had had the free alternative as we now have, would have founded slavery.
Eric Gill
Born: February 22, 1882
Died: November 17, 1940 (aged 58)
Bio: Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was an English sculptor, typeface designer, stonecutter and printmaker, who was associated with the Arts and Crafts movement.
Known for:
- An Essay on Typography (1931)
- Beauty looks after herself (1933)
- The Letters of Eric Gill
- Eric Gill
- Autobiography (1940)