Alphabet Stories notgoingtotypographics This scholarly work by John

This scholarly work by John Dreyfus provides a definitive historical account of the creation of the 1931 Golden Cockerel Press edition of The Four Gospels

Apparently it is in the charter of the Grolier Club in New York that every few years they must have an exhibition or lecture or some sort of event about Hermann Zapf and his work

Paul Rand designed the cover

Explained in these pages is how the acquisition came about and how an antiquarian must always be on his guard

the joint publishing venture between Abbe and Dwiggins

Alphabet Stories notgoingtotypographics This scholarly work by JohnThis book is the first Hermann Zapf monograph to be typeset in Palatino Nova and Palatino Sans digital typefaces issued by Linotype. Written as an anecdotal first person account, the reader is treated to Zapfs personal recollections of technical breakthroughs and he reveals milestones tracing his education in 1930s Germany, his work on forefront of computer aided typesetting in the 1970s, and the tour de force design of a complex calligraphic