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Manuale typographicum : 100 typographical arrangements with considerations about types, typography and the art of printing selected from past and present, printed in eighteen languages.: PB 26-2003

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Manuale typographicum : 100 typographical arrangements with considerations about types, typography and the art of printing selected from past and present, printed in eighteen languages.

Maker(s)

Author: Zapf, Hermann
Publisher: Z-Presse
Writer: Duensing, Paul Hayden

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Description

Tipped on endpage: printed sheet bearing 2 quotations by Frederic W. Goudy and Hermann Zapf which states, "this keepsake is for distribution upon the occasion of the presentation of the Goudy Medal to Hermann Zapf at the Rochester Institute of Technology, October 10, 1969 ..." On back paste-down 2 photographs of Zapf receiving this award have been tipped in, together with the second page of a letter from Paul Hayden Duensing to John Dreyfus referring to the photographs.

Place(s) associated

  • Frankfurt

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1968

Note

Colophon: " ... Printed at the Officin Ludwig Oehms in Frankfurt am Main. American edition Museum Books, New York: 975 copies, autographed and numbered; plus 25 copies autographed and numbered i to xxv, each containing an original layout page of the present work. [signature of Hermann Zapf] This volume bears the number [in ms] 217." With dust-jacket.

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Support composed of paper (fibre product) ( [3], 117, [1] leaves)

Materials used in production

Ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 26-2003
Primary reference Number: 94103
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 28 August 2015 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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