Through this work he met Victor Stiebel, Oliver Messel, Gabriel White, Lynton Lamb and Edward Ardizzone who was to become his brother-in-law.
[5] The company published his first book, A Handbook of Printing Types with Notes on the Composition and Graphic Processes used by Cowells in 1947.
Barnett Freedman, Edward Bawden, and Graham Sutherland, as well as a weather chart by the Isotype Institute.
[7][8] In the 1960s Lewis also edited the influential Studio Vista/Van Nostrand Reinhold Art Paperbacks series for Studio Vista in the UK and Van Nostrand Reinhold in the US, including authors such as Peter Cook, Theo Crosby, Alan Fletcher, Ken Garland, Bob Gill, Norman Potter, David Pye, Paul Rand and Alison and Peter Smithson.
[9] The John Lewis Printing Collection of more than 20,000 items from the fifteenth to the twentieth century is held at Reading University.