Manuale Typographicum

Here are 100 typographic pages consisting of alphabets and quotations printed in various types. The quotations selected by Hermann Zapf concern types and printing, are from the past and the present, and are in sixteen languages. Translations are in the back. Zapf, of course, was a noted type designer, and he himself originally devised many of the type faces used here. Other faces were taken from the fonts of the Stempel—including historic faces came from that foundry’s archives. This is the trade version of this book—and it’s no mere substitute for the original. It totally stands on its own as an excellent book.