Sjoerd H. de Roos

Sjoerd Hendrik de Roos (14 September 1877 - 3 April 1962), better known as S.H. de Roos, was a Dutch type designer, book cover designer and artist. De Roos was born in Drachten to a cobbler, but moved to Amsterdam at an early age. It was here that, between the ages of twelve and fourteen, he trained to be a lithographer. Later he studied at the Teekenschool voor Kunstambachten (The School of Drawing for the Arts and Crafts), part of …