Hermann Zapf and the World He Designed: a Biography, by Jerry Kelly Barbara Beeton Jerry Kelly, Hermann Zapf and the World He Designed: a Biography
272 TUGboat, Volume 40 (2019), No. 3 Book review: Hermann Zapf and the World He Designed: A Biography, by Jerry Kelly Barbara Beeton Jerry Kelly, Hermann Zapf and the World He Designed: A Biography. The Grolier Club, New York, 2019, hardcover, 364 pp., US$48.00, ISBN 978-1605830827. This book, the first comprehensive biography of Her- mann Zapf (1918{2015), was published to accom- pany the Grolier Club exhibition \Alphabet Magic: A Centennial Exhibition of the Work of Hermann & Gudrun Zapf", curated by Jerry Kelly and Steven Zapf's birth in 1918 through 1954, the years in which Galbraith. The exhibition (February 20 { April 27, his typefaces were rendered in metal. The period 2019 [1]) celebrated the centenary of Zapf's birth. 1952{1975 was the era of phototype. Digital meth- The volume is handsomely bound in blue cloth ods became available after that. These are not hard stamped in gold. (A deluxe edition, obtained through boundaries, and Zapf's other activities aren't so eas- a Kickstarter campaign,1 is instead bound in red.) ily subdivided, but the division does permit the table Zapf's signature appears on the front cover, with the of contents to fit on one page. More easily subdivided elegant swash that instantly identifies its creator. are the many appendices, which provide important The colophonZ identifies the typefaces used for the details in a way that makes it easier to look them text as Palatino nova and Optima nova, the versions up. The index is populated mainly by the names of of those faces re-implemented by Zapf for electronic persons, places, typefaces, .
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