About Alphabets: Some Marginal Notes on Type Design

First Edition, 1960. 118 pages. 

Book measures 4.5 x 7 inches. Blue cloth with gilt stamped leather spine panel. No dust jacket as issued. No 37 in the Typophile Chap Book Series. Designed by Hermann Zapf, and set in Linotype Optima and printed by Ludwig Oehms at Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Foreword by Paul Standard. A description by Zapf on the process, and chronology of his typeface designs. Includes specimens and drawings, along with a checklist to date of publication (1960) of his finished designs. A beautifully printed and designed book which includes a number of inserts tipped in. Published in an edition totaling 700 copies in America (400 for Typophile subscribers & 300 for general sale). SIGNED by Zapf on the colophon in the year 1979.

Near Fine condition. A very clean sharp copy.