Item #901431 A Book of Type and Design. Oldrich Hlavsa.
A Book of Type and Design

A Book of Type and Design

New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1960.
Hardcover.

Designed and Produced by SNTL - Publishers of Technical Literature, Prague. Translated by Sylvia Fink in cooperation with Kim Taylor (Zurich).

This book intended for printers, typographers, and for all who care for fine books and printing, shows a selection of roman typefaces used in contemporary printing, and at the same time provides a cross-section of the production of the world's foremost typefoundries. A major part of the book is given to specimens of various typefaces, accompanied by short comments. The development of typefaces, their design and use, and the basic rules of good composition are also briefly discussed. Type and illustration have been combined in the book to make it at once practical and aesthetic, and so serve both the means and the ends of those for whom it is intended.

Item #901431

9-5/8 x 6-7/8", quarter white cloth, black cloth over boards with white decoration each board, pictorial endpapers, yellow top-edge, ribbon marker, 495pp, illustrated throughout.

Faint moisture stain bottom end front board at joint, little bumping to extreme corners, clean of owner's marks, very good

Price: $125.00