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Festival of Britain. (Paul Reilly)
F.H.K. Henrion. (Michael Middleton)
International Window Display (Walter Herdeg)
Slavik. (Francois Stahly)
Young French Cartoonists (Claude Favre)
Badia-Vilato (Claude Favre)
Aaron Siskind, “Abstract” Photography (Georgine Oeri)
Polish Book Covers
Japanese Commercial Art (Seikichi Waki)
Breda. An Experiment in Exhibition Design (Claudio Bianconi)
Via Crucis. Anonymous Art of Our Own Day (F. Stahly)
Centro Internazionale delle Arti e del Costume. (Claudio Bianconi)
Printer and Customer: A Change of Attitute 1851-1951. (Beatrice Warde)

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Graphis 37, 1951. Cover design by Frederick Henri Kay Henrion
Graphis 37, 1951. Cover design by Frederick Henri Kay Henrion
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