Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering.
by TSCHICHOLD, Jan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
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About This Item
New York: Reinhold Publishing Corporation, 1966. 176 type specimens, presented in complete alphabets wherever possible. With an introductory essay on typefaces and typographic design by Jan Tschichold. First Edition in English. Pp. 236. 4to., a very good copy in the original red cloth, lettering in gilt to upper cover and spine, in the original, mildly worn and chipped dust jacket.||The English translation of Tschichold’s ‘Meister Buch Der Schrift’.| Tschichold’s comprehensive source book of types and letters.
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- Bookseller
- SOPHIE SCHNEIDEMAN RARE BOOKS (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8946
- Title
- Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering.
- Author
- TSCHICHOLD, Jan
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Reinhold Publishing Corporation
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Jan Tschichold;Typography;Alphabets Book,Printing & Typography
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