“‘Only daily-work art is worth a button,’ said [W.R.] Lethaby. ‘The craftsman must be a workman,’ said [Edward] Johnston, and [Eric] Gill, in his writings, never ceased to proclaim that the artist must be an ordinary man and not ‘a hot-house plant.’”

—Priscilla Johnston, from Edward Johnston, 1958. W.R. Lethaby was Johnston’s primary professor at the Royal College of Art. Eric Gill was a friend and fellow student.