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Compendium for Literates

Title, Year

Compendium for Literates, 1974

Designer

Karl Gerstner (b. 1930)

Author

Karl Gerstner

Publisher, Size (h x w)

The MIT Press, Cambridge Mass., USA, 6 x 6" (15.24 x 15.24 cm), 180 pp., English

1st English language edition by Dennis Q. Stephenson from the 1972 German edition titled "Kompendium for Alphabeten: Systematik der Schrift." Gerstner's important book on every conceivable typographic problem in relation to texture, weight, color, legibility spacing and leading is explained.

Very good black cloth hardcover with a hint of water staining on the fore edge. In a VG dustjacket with minor wear along the edges and some paper removal along the spine. Small previous owner's name inside.

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