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Twentieth century type designers / Sebastian Carter.

Van Pelt Library Z250.A2 C3717 1987
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Carter, Sebastian, author.
Contributor:
Taplinger Publishing Company, publisher.
Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Type designers--Biography.
Type designers.
Type and type-founding--History--20th century.
Type and type-founding.
History.
Genre:
Biographies.
Penn Provenance:
Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
Physical Description:
168 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
New York : Taplinger Publishing Company, 1987.
Contents:
Old types for new machines
The designers
Frederic W. Goudy
Bruce Rogers
Rudolf Koch
William Addison Dwiggins
Eric Gill
Victor Hammer
Stanley Morison
Hans (Giovanni) Mardersteig
Jan van Krimpen
Georg Trump
Joseph Bluemnthal
Robert Hunter Middleton
Jan Tschichold
Berthold Wolpe
Roger Excoffon
New types for newer machines
Hermann Zapf
Adrian Frutiger
Epilogue.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016.
Vilain-Wieck Collection copy has dustjacket. Invoice for book laid in.
ISBN:
0800879163 :
OCLC:
16306974

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