(Boston): David R. Godine, (2016), First Edition. quarto, boards in dust jacket. 120 pp. David R. Godine, Roughly fifteen years after Gutenburg printed the first book in Maintz in 1455, Nicolas Jenson of Venice produced what has been universally recognized as among the most beautiful typefaces ever created. Based on... More
Boston: David R. Godine Publisher, 2017, First Edition. quarto, red cloth in dust jacket. 144 pp. David R. Godine Publisher, Foreword by Donald Jackson. New Yorkers who walked along Madison Avenue in the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s would recognize her masterful posters for the Morgan Library. Scribes in the U.S...... More
(New York): Kelly Winterton Press, (2019), First Edition. octavo, maroon cloth stamped in gilt. (350) pp. Kelly Winterton Press, Calligrapher, type designer, and typographer Hermann Zapf towers over twentieth century lettering arts. Over a 70 year career, he designed more than 200 typefaces, many of which have become a part... More
Rochester: Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2009, First Edition, Limited to 100 copies. quarto, Fabriano paper and vellum spine. 24 pp. Cary Graphic Arts Press, Manuale Zapficum, the new limited edition book, commemorates the ninetieth birthdays of typographers Hermann Zapf and Gudrun Zapf von Hesse through beautiful typeface specimens set in... More
Rochester, NY: RIT, Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2007, First Edition. octavo, decorated wrappers. 48pp. RIT, Cary Graphic Arts Press, “Spend Your Alphabets Lavishly,”—a quote from Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables—aptly describes the lifework of two principal figures in contemporary graphic arts: Hermann and Gudrun Zapf. The Zapfs’ 50-year relationship with Rochester..... More
