Victor Hammer, typographer and printer from Vienna who came to America, was a teacher who believed nothing could be taught but everything could be learned.
Carolyn Reading Hammer tells a story Victor Hammer told about
... a Florentine craftsman who was commissioned by a Signor Praetesi to make a square-topped table for his Signora. Some time later the Signor came to the craftsman's shop to fetch the table. A table with a round top was brought forth.“But,” said Signor Praetesi, “I commissioned a square-topped table!”
“Ah,” said the craftsman, “but it turned out round.”
The information about Victor Hammer and Stanley Morison comes from a
wonderful book called Heritage of the Graphic Arts edited by Chandler
B. Grannis. The people described in the book care about type and from
that caring comes art.