first edition
1987 · Chicago
by Zapf, Hermann
Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts, 1987. First edition, large 8vo, pp. [6], 5-254, [2]; photographic frontispiece portrait, 96 plates in color, and illustrations throughout text, shoulder notes printed in blue; fine in the dust jacket. A handsome, monumental volume documenting the most influential man in modern type design, as well as the 175 alphabets he designed since 1948. This copy signed by Zapf on the colophon and in a gray cloth slipcase.
(Inventory #: 51587)