Manuale Typographicum

Hermann Zapf

New York

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Museum Books

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1968

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. Signed by Author

30.5cm x 21cm. [6] pages, 117 leaves (1-100 being specimen pages (printed recto only), 101-117 being 34 pages of annotations and notes), colophon. Quarter vellum, cloth, gilt lettering, lettered jacket.

100 typographical arrangements with considerations about types, typography and the art of printing selected from past and present, printed in eighteen languages. The American Edition produced by Museum Books with the introduction and annotations in English. Signed and numbered edition of 1,000 copies, of which this is number 500.

Very minor tanning. Very minor shelf wear. Small closed tear to jacket. Bookplate of Richard E. Dickerson. Near Fine Condition.