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Hermann Zapf Calligrapher, type-designer & typographer An exhibition arranged & circulated by the Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1960-61
by Zapf, Hermann / Noel Martin (intro.)
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Hermann Zapf Calligrapher, type-designer & typographer - #184 Published to coincide with the exhibition arranged -The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1960-61. Introduction - Noel Martin,sections compiled (with many examples) by Paul Standard on (170) Zapf items including: Calligraphy, Type Designs, Book Design, Typography, List of Type Faces Brief Chronology. .. Set in Linotype Optima - printed- printing office of Stempel foundry in Frankfurt ..Frontispiece portrait of Zapf... - softcover book with paper wrappers. Interior is clean and bright... -printed in Germany. not stated, catalog of museum exhibit. Cincinnati Art Museum, 1960. paperback, Book Condition: good, Cleveland, 1960-61, 4-1/2 by 7 approximately Catalog that one would buy -attended an exhibit there ..170 items,shown 24 pp. of illusts. + intro. by Noel Martin & list of types he designed.. Exhibited New York, Chicago, Cincinnati, Boston, Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Toronto. It's printed on very nice stationary type of paper it has a medium blue same type of paper that wraps around the paper cover Hermann Zapf. Lists 170 items and has many illustrations Also contains a list of type-faces designed by Zapf. Signed by Zapf on the title page. 62 pages. stiff paper wrappers, paper spine label..184 Wood theatre cube
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- Ruth Reaser LAXVESPA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 184
- Title
- Hermann Zapf Calligrapher, type-designer & typographer An exhibition arranged & circulated by the Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinnati Art Museum, 1960-61
- Author
- Zapf, Hermann / Noel Martin (intro.)
- Format/Binding
- 184
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- not stated, catalog of museum exhibit
- Binding
- Paperback
- Place of Publication
- printed in Germany
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- type designers, calligraphy type styles
- Bookseller catalogs
- Art;
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