Manuale Typographicum
Cambridge & London: The M.I.T. Press, 1970.
Hardcover.
Reprint of the limited edition of 1000 copies originally published in 1954.
100 typographic pages with alphabets and quotations from the past and present on types and printing in 16 different languages (with translations) selected and designed by Hermann Zapf. Zapf devised many of the type faces used here; others have been taken from the fonts and archives of the Stempel foundry in Frankfurt am Main. The purpose of the manual is "to show the myriad possibilities of the expressiveness and beauty of type, whether individually or in massed text, by the use of purely typographic means."
Item #901442ISBN: 0262240114
9-7/8 x 7-1/16", blue silk over boards, 123pp, 100 typographic pages printed on recto only, 1p afterword by Hermann Zapf, typographic annotations, translations, list of authors.
Fine in very good rubbed dust wrapper with moderate edge-wear, in protective mylar.
Price: $150.00