The Lambent Flame

Design: Vane Lindesay
Date: 1974
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Vane Lindesay has won many awards for his book design and cartoons. The Lambent Flame was awarded Book of the Year in the 1975–>76 ABPA Awards. The catalogue described it thus: ‘An elegant, understated design entirely suited to its subject. The text, set in the little-used Monotype Imprint, with Imprint Shadow Display on the jacket and text headings, exactly reflects the colour and texture of the nineteenth century engravings, and the book is warmed by the use of a magnificent soft yellow-gold as background to the engravings’.