The subject on the Post this week is Noel Carrington (1885-1989) who has been described as an "unsung hero...a footnote man who appears fleetingly in indexes of biographies of the Bloomsbury Circle, design journals or publishing histories". If his name sounds familiar, it is because his sister was the artist Dora Carrington who drew this portrait (c1912). Despite his lack of renown, he is acknowledged to be one the twentieth century's most influential figures in the commissioning, editing, and designing of books .