Hugh Williamson (1918 – 30 October 1992,

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) was a British book designer and author on printing. Williamson dropped out of

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to serve in the

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on the Italian front during the Second World War, and later wrote an unofficial history of his Fourth Division. After studying at the

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he became a staff designer for

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where he wrote the textbook ''Methods of Book Design''. He was editor of the Bulletin of the British

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from 1980 to 1988.

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