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Paul Johnston (fine press printer and book designer)
Paul Johnston (July 17, 1899 – February 18, 1987) was among the printers and artists who defined a new American style of printing, typography and book design in the 1920s and 1930s.
==Career==
Johnston began his fine press printing career with Egmont Arens' Flying Stag Press in Greenwich Village, New York City.〔Special Collections, New York Public Library, Research Call Number: (1580 )〕 Flying Stag Press published ''Drawings by Rockwell Kent: A Portfolio of Prints'', 28 black and white illustrations, in 1924. Now part of the Bohemian Village scene, while still working for Arens, PJ set up his own press, intending to publish a magazine of new literature, like ''Transition'' in Paris and ''Broom'' in Italy. Then, having a different idea, he published the material in six pamphlets called ''The Latterday Pamphlets''. He showed an editor at Random House his work along with a proposal to print fine press editions of the country's best contemporary poets and writers.〔PJ audiotape transcripts, interviews by Mary Clark, 1980〕
''The Poetry Quartos,'' a limited edition of 475 copies, designed and printed at his press in Silvermine, Connecticut, was published by Random House in 1929. ''The Poetry Quartos'' consisted of one booklet for each poem by twelve well-known poets, with an illustration by PJ on each cover. All the booklets were then enclosed in a folder. The poets were Robert Frost, Genevieve Taggard, Vachel Lindsay, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Dreiser, Elinor Wylie, William Rose Benét, H.D., Louis Untermeyer, Alfred Kreymborg, Conrad Aiken, and Witter Bynner.〔''The Poetry Quartos'', printed and illustrated by Paul Johnston, New York: Random House, 1929〕 ''The Prose Quartos'' appeared in 1930 in a limited edition of 875 copies, and included the work of Stephen Vincent Benét, Sherwood Anderson, Conrad Aiken, Alfred Kreymborg, Louis Bromfield and Theodore Dreiser.〔''The Prose Quartos'', printed and illustrated by Paul Johnston, New York: Random House, 1930〕
During the next fifteen years, Johnston moved back and forth between the Village and Woodstock, New York, which was flourishing as an artistic community. In Woodstock, Hervey White hired him to be the editor and advertising manager of ''Hue And Cry'', the weekly artistic newspaper. In the early 1930s Johnston wrote and published ''The Book Collector's Packet''.〔 About the same time, in March 1932 he published 250 copies of ''The Crow's Nest Funerealities'' by the poet Peggy Bacon.
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