Manuale typographicum : 100 typographical arrangements with considerations about types, typography and the art of printing selected from past and present, printed in eighteen languages.
Author:
Zapf, Hermann
Publisher:
Z-Presse
Writer:
Duensing, Paul Hayden
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.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John
Production date: AD 1968
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.
Support composed of paper (fibre product) ( [3], 117, [1] leaves)
Accession number: PB 26-2003
Primary reference Number: 94103
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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