Manuale Typographicum

We’re just gonna rip this description straight from Jerry Kelly’s One Hundred Books Famous in Typography because it’s cold and our fingers are stiff and we can just copy this text from the book with our camera and paste it here:

Meticulously printed at the Stempel Typefoundry, where he worked early in his career, Zapf’s Manuale differs in significant ways from previous typographic manuals, such as those by Fournier and Bodoni: it is printed only in red and black, and each arrangement fills a standard type area. Every page contains a complete alphabet showing along with a text on typography or the alphabet selected from writings in sixteen different languages. Within those parameters, one finds a wonderfully diverse assortment of typographic arrangements in this volume, some in centered and conservative arrangements, while others are decidedly modern and asymmetric, with the occasional line running sideways, and in several instances of over-printed letterforms. Jan Tschichold wrote that Zapf’s 1954 Manuale Typographicum “is a masterpiece of invention and just as masterfully typeset.”