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Robert Coupland Harding
In New Zealand Type Design Since 1870 (2009), Philip Clarke writes: Arguably New Zealand's first type designer was Robert Coupland Harding. From his early years as a newspaper printer in Wanganui, and then Napier, where he met the missionary William Colenso, the printer of the Treaty of Waitangi, Harding began to publish his own journals for which he was able to begin to demonstrate the typographic craft of a printer. Most notably he produced Hardings Almanac in the 1870s as well as New Zealand's first typographic design journal Typo which he began in 1887. Typo received such high international praise that a leading English typefounder wrote that: "For the future historian of typefounding of the present generation we shall certainly have to go to New Zealand". As Don McKenzie has written, "Robert Coupland Harding, as practitioner, historian and critic of printing has a strong claim to be considered New Zealand's first and most eminent typographer." In addition to working as a publisher, printer, journalist and importing the first North American and European metal type brought into the country, he also designed printing borders. |
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