Darlin’ Bill: A Love Story of the Wild West by Jerome Charyn
Harrington was first cast by John Haddon & Co. in London in 1899. There was at least one phototype revival in the 1960s, by Lettergraphics. But it wasn’t until 1978 that the turn-of-the-century design became popular again: that year, it was added to Letraset’s Letragraphica range.
Here it can seen used with the overly tight spacing that is so typical for the time, on the jacket for Darlin’ Bill, a book by Jerome Charyn (b. 1937) published by Arbor House in 1980. This “love story of the Wild West featuring Will Bill Hickok and one Sally Ovenshine” is described as “a blending of fact and fiction, adventure and romance.”
Designer Loretta Trezzo paired Harrington with two other faces rooted in the Art Nouveau era: Roberta III Initials (or maybe PLINC’s virtually identical precursor, Staudel Xenotype J) and Herkules.
