On Designing and Devising Type (Typophile Chap Books: XXXII)
New York: The Typophiles, 1957.
Limited Edition. Hardcover.
From an edition limited to 500 copies: 350 for Typophile subscribers and contributors and 150 copies for general sale. An additional 900 copies were printed carrying various imprints internationally. This thirty-second Chap Book in the Typophile series has been designed by the author and printed at Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Netherlands. The types are Spectrum for the text and other indicated faces, bound by J. F. Tapley Company in New York.
Jan Van Krimpen (1892-1958) was a Dutch typographer, book and type designer who not only designed Spectrum, but other noted types like Romanee, Open Roman Capitals, the Romulus type family, Van Dijck Roman, Haarlemmer, & Sheldon.
4-5/8 x 7-3/16”, red cloth, tinted top-edge, deckled fore-edge, 107pp, 25 illustrations, this is the Otis College copy in fair condition
On Designing and Devising Type (Typophile Chap Books: XXXII)
New York: The Typophiles, 1957.
Limited Edition. Hardcover.
From an edition limited to 500 copies: 350 for Typophile subscribers and contributors and 150 copies for general sale. An additional 900 copies were printed carrying various imprints internationally. This thirty-second Chap Book in the Typophile series has been designed by the author and printed at Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Netherlands. The types are Spectrum for the text and other indicated faces, bound by J. F. Tapley Company in New York.
Jan Van Krimpen (1892-1958) was a Dutch typographer, book and type designer who not only designed Spectrum, but other noted types like Romanee, Open Roman Capitals, the Romulus type family, Van Dijck Roman, Haarlemmer, & Sheldon.
4-5/8 x 7-3/16”, red cloth, tinted top-edge, deckled fore-edge, 107pp, 25 illustrations, this is the Otis College copy in fair condition
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