Manuale typographicum

Zapf, Hermann

Published by [G. K. Schauer], Frankfurt am Main, 1954

About this Item

Edition limited to 1000 copies, oblong folio, consisting of 2 bifolia (title page, preface, and table of contents, plus 100 typographic leaves with quotations from the past and present on types and printing in 16 different languages selected and designed by Hermann Zapf and printed by Heinrich Egenolf; plain embossed outer wrapper with title printed in red on spine, and contained in the original clamshell box with the title in gilt on spine. The box is a little worn, otherwise generally fine throughout. This is a presentation copy from Zapf, inscribed by him in German on the inside of the front wrapper to Walter Howe, Director of the Lakeside Press's Department of Design and Topography, and a Fellow of the Society for Typographic Arts in Chicago of which Hermann Zapf was also a member. Laid in are the original printed complimentary presentation slip from Zapf, the 47-page pamphlet, Texte und Ubersetzungenin Deutcher Sprach, the publisher's printed announcement leaf for a forthcoming English translation supplement to the Manuale, and a printed New Year's greeting from Hermann and Gudrun Zapf for the year 1966. The Manuale Typographicum was set in 16 languages with the types of D. Stempel Ag at Frankfurt am Main and historic faces taken from that foundry's archives. Zapf drew 100 examples from the creative genius of such artists as Gill, Rogers, Baskerville, and Bodoni, and quotations from the works of such literary minds as Cicero, Dickens, Hugo, and Huxley.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Manuale typographicum
• Publisher: [G. K. Schauer], Frankfurt am Main
• Publication Date: 1954
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