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Published by The Wynkyn de Worde Society/Bund Deutscher Buckkunstler, London, England, 1989
ISBN 10: 3922715354ISBN 13: 9783922715351
Seller: Marc Sena Carrel, Pacifica, CA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is a bilingual edition in German and English. Set in Zapf Renaissance Roman. Printed in Frankfurt and bound in Darmstadt, Germany. 11 x 7.25 inches. Cinnamon cloth boards with gilt stamped lettering to the front, back and spine. Generally unbumped spine head and tail and with very gently bumped upper corners. Text block firmly bound in. 251 numbered pages. With 26 full-page color plates showing calligraphy-inspired typefaces, a tipped-in color plate, and numerous B&W figures. Slight page waviness. Technically ex library but with only a few very tiny ex lib stamps on the rear pastedown. Else an immensely clean copy. Gently read if read at all. A Very Good Plus copy. This publication was printed to mark the occasion of Hermann Zapf's fifty years in alphabet design. Weight 1 lb. 14 oz.