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- A Brief History of the Ampersand | Jan Tschichold
A Brief History of the Ampersand | Jan Tschichold
A Brief History of the Ampersand | Jan Tschichold
Jan Tschichold (1902-1974, typographer, theorician and teacher) published in 1953 Formenwandlungen der &-Zeichen, a short historical essay dealing with the successive designs of the ampersand glyph. This text is structured by a collection of 288 carefully selected and commented ampersands, which constitues a brief and concise introduction to the history of Western writing and typography. Long unavailable in English, this new translation is published in a facsimile version, faithful to the original design by the author.
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A new translation by Jean-Marie Clarke — with an afterword by Marc H. Smith
32 pages with jacket, duotone printing, 12 × 20,5 cm
ISBN : 979-10-95902-06-5
Jan Tschichold (1902-1974, typographer, theorician and teacher) published in 1953 Formenwandlungen der &-Zeichen, a short historical essay dealing with the successive designs of the ampersand glyph. This text is structured by a collection of 288 carefully selected and commented ampersands, which constitues a brief and concise introduction to the history of Western writing and typography. Long unavailable in English, this new translation is published in a facsimile version, faithful to the original design by the author.
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A new translation by Jean-Marie Clarke — with an afterword by Marc H. Smith
32 pages with jacket, duotone printing, 12 × 20,5 cm
ISBN : 979-10-95902-06-5