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Pioneers of Modern Typography

1970

Smithsonian NMAAHC collection

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Hardcover copy of “Pioneers of Modern Typography” with 160 pages and two book jackets. There is a clear plastic book jacket cover over the patterned book jacket. The patterned book jacket is blue with a design on the front of an overlapping white circle, yellow triangle, and red square. There is a tear at the top and some loss to the edges. At the top left of the front cover is black printed text [Herbert Spencer] next to white text which reads [Pioneers of / modern / typography]. The author and title are on the spine in white with the publisher [Hastings House] in black. On the back cover of the book jacket there is a list of names printed in black in one central column starting with [Apollinaire]. The jacket front flap describes the book and the author while the back flap has “Other books of related interest”.

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Catalog reference: 2016.26.5.32

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