Book Description

Selected articles and lectures on calligraphy and contemporary developments in type design, with illustrations and bibliographical notes, and a complete list of his typefaces. Signed copy. Photographic frontispiece portrait, 96 plates in colour, and illustrations throughout text, additional notes printed in blue; A handsome, monumental volume documenting the most influential man in modern type design, as well as the 175 alphabets he designed since 1948. Signed on the half title by Zapf with a dedication to fellow typographer and designer, Michael Harvey.
Author ZAPF, Hermann. Introduction by Carl Zahn.
Date 1987
Binding Cloth
Publisher Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts
Illustrator Illustrated by the designer
Condition Very good with very good dust wrapper
Pages [6] 5-254pp

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