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Asymmetric Typography
by Tschichold, Jan
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Fair
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About This Item
London/Toronto: Faber and Faber Limited in co-operation with Cooper & Beatty Ltd., 1967. Book. Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Black cloth with title in silver on spine. Condition: Good, with light shelfwear to covers. No inscriptions. Some light foxing to textblock edges. Binding sound. Dustjacket condition: Fair, the title on the spine has been bleached out by the sun. Generally shelfworn with a couple of small repaired tears, some light soiling and foxing and a scratchmark across the word asymmetric on the front cover of the jacket. Not price-clipped. 94pp. Several colour and b/w illustrations. This book is the first English translation (translated by Ruari Maclean) of Jan Tschichold's book first published in Switzerland in 1935. Tschichold discusses in detail the application of asymmetric design to different printing methods such as gravure, offset and letterpress. In addition, there are also detailed chapters on typographic refinements concerning type setting, grouping, line endings, tables, colours and paper. Each chapter is also illustrated with practical examples printed in several colours..
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- Bookseller
- Karen Jakobsen Art & Design Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008120
- Title
- Asymmetric Typography
- Author
- Tschichold, Jan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber Limited in co-operation with Cooper & Beatty Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London/Toronto
- Date Published
- 1967
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- tschichold, asymmetric typography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Typography;
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- Offset
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- Edges
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- Cloth
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
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- Spine
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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