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Manuale Typographicum: 100 Typographical Arrangements with Considerations about Types, Typography and the Art of Printing Selected from the Past and Present, Printed in Eighteen Languages

Hermann Zapf (German, 1918–2015)
Publisher: Z-Presse
Printer: Ludwig Oehms (German, 20th century)
1968
Place of Publication: Frankfurt, Germany; Place of Publication: New York, New York, USA

Medium/Technique Illustrated book with typographic designs
Dimensions Overall: 30.8 x 21.5 x 3.6 cm (12 1/8 x 8 7/16 x 1 7/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Carl Zahn
Accession Number2007.1109
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Frankfurt and New York: Z-Presse, 1968

Description(Frankfurt and New York: Z-Presse, 1968) Quarto; [3 ff.] 117 ff. [1 f.]; original publisher's half gilt-stamped vellum, gilt-stamped brown silk.

Typographic arrangements with mottos.
Signed Pen and blue ink below colophon: "Hermann Zapf"
ProvenanceCarl Zahn, by whom given to MFA, 2007.
Copyright© Hermann Zapf