JERRY KELLY is a book designer, calligrapher, type designer, and typographer. Since the late 1970s he has designed hundreds of books for numerous clients, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Pierpont Morgan Library, The American Federation of the Arts, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, The Grolier Club, The American Printing History Association, Association Internationale de Bibliophiles (AIB), Columbia University, Yale University Press, Cambridge University Press, David R. Godine Publisher, George Braziller Publishers, Rizzoli International, International Typeface Corporation (ITC), and others. His work has received numerous awards, including more than thirty selections in the American Institute of Graphic Arts's prestigious "Fifty Books of the Year" awards for excellence in book design, three selections of the Type Director's Club, awards from the Society of Typographers (England), and the American Library Association. Kelly is an honorary member of the Double Crown Club (England), a corresponding member of the Bund Deutsche Buchkunstler, and an active member of the American Printing History Association (where he served as Chairman of the Board and Vice President), The Grolier Club (where he has served on several committees including Modern Fine Printing), and The Typophiles (where he served as President, 2014-2015). Since 1978 he has been a partner at the Kelly-Winterton Press, a small shop printing fine editions by letterpress (and occasionally other means where appropriate). He is also a partner at the Nonpareil Typefoundry, an independent type design firm.
The Noblest Roman : A History of the Centaur Types of Bruce Rogers