Hermann Zapf and the World He Designed: A Biography

by Jerry Kelly

Book Overview

Published to accompany the 2019 Grolier Club exhibition Alphabet Magic: A Centennial Exhibition of the Work of Hermann & Gudrun Zapf, Herman Zapf and the World He Designed is the first comprehensive biography of Hermann Zapf (1918-2015), whom Robert Bringhurst has called "the greatest type designer of our time, and very possibly the greatest type designer of all time." Informed by Jerry Kelly's scrupulous research at the Hermann Zapf archive in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1605830828
• ISBN13: 9781605830827
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Grolier Club
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.6"