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Autobiography in type / by Hermann Zapf.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio Z250.A2 Z372 1960z
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zapf, Hermann.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Type designers--Germany.
- Type designers.
- Type and type-founding--Germany--History--20th century.
- Type and type-founding.
- Type and type-founding--Germany--History--20th century--Specimens.
- Penn Provenance:
- Fern, Alan Maxwell, 1930- (donor) (RBC copy)
- Fern, Lois, 1934- (donor) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- p. 33-48 : ill. ; 31 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- [Frankfurt am Main: D. Stempel, 196-?]
- Notes:
- Offprint.
- Imprint place and date from printed paper slip ("ÜBERREICHT VON DER D. STEMPEL A.G. SCHRIFTGIESSEREI MESSINGLINIENFABRIK LINOTYPE-MATRIZENFABRIK MASCHINENFABRIK * FRANKFURT AM MAIN HEDDERICHSTRASSE 106-114") laid in.
- Illustration on p. 48 dated 1959.
- Includes a quotation by Zapf from Manuale typographicum on p. 33.
- "Printed in Germany"--P. 48.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy is gift of Alan and Lois Fern, 2016.
- OCLC:
- 57359657
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