Robert William Lowry was a New Zealand printer, publisher, typographer and teacher.
Biography
Lowry was born in Paeroa, New Zealand, on 17 November 1912. He was the eldest child of his mother Janet Craig Forrest and Irish father Robert William Lowry, a storekeeper, farmer and carpenter. He was educated at Auckland Grammar School, where he first became interested in typography, and at Auckland University College. While still at university, he undertook several printing enterprises, including the printing of Phoenix, the journal of the university's literary club. At this time Lowry was an admirer of Francis Meynell, Eric Gill and Stanley Morison; also of Tschichold. After university Lowry set up the Unicorn Press, and later the Pelorus Press.
Mentioned in
Lowry has been mentioned in many a publication; below is a list: A Book in the Hand: Essays on the History of the Book in New Zealand Preface Eleven: Bob Lowry and the Pelorus Press, 1945-531 Collected Poems By A. R. D. Fairburn Poem Addressed to Mr Robert Lowry on the Occasion of the Birth of his Fourth Daughter Design Review: Volume 3, Issue 3 Craft at the Academy Indirections: A Memoir 1909-1947 Chapter Eight — Hallenstein Bros Kōtare 1998, Volume One, Number One ‘Red Hot Gospels of Highbrows’: R. A. K. Mason and the demise of Phoenix Kōtare 1999, Volume Two, Number One A bibliographical description and nominal index to The Phoenix, Auckland University College, 1932-1933 Kōtare 2007, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series One: ‘Women Prose Writers to World War I’ Elsie Locke, 1912–2001 Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Three: ‘The Early Poets’ R. A. K. Mason, 1905–1971 Charles Brasch, 1909–1973 Denis Glover, 1912–1980 Kōtare 2008, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series Two: ‘Early Male Prose Writers’ Frank Sargeson , 1903–1982 Roderick Finlayson, 1904–1992 The Home FrontVolume II CHAPTER 23 — The Arts Survive
