Item #1023 [TYPESETTING] Rukovodstvo dlia naborshchikov [i.e. Typesetter’s Handbook]. F. Bauer.
[TYPESETTING] Rukovodstvo dlia naborshchikov [i.e. Typesetter’s Handbook]

[TYPESETTING] Rukovodstvo dlia naborshchikov [i.e. Typesetter’s Handbook]

Item #1023

Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1930. 400 pp.: ill., 1 folding table, 3 ills. 24,5x17 cm. In original yellow full cloth with lettering on the spine, emblems on the front cover and spine; in original illustrated, constructivist style dust wrapper. Dust wrapper soiled, tears with small losses on edges. Book is in a very good condition, slightly soiled externally, ink signature on t.p. One of 5000 copies.
Only Soviet translation of classic typesetting guide that was written by Friedrich Bauer. The translation was made by A. Derman, with additions by A. Itskov, L. Kaplan, N. Spirov.
As Derman wrote, “It was difficult to undertake because of the different levels of printing and machinery in Germany and the USSR”. That’s why the translator had to rewrite or change some chapters, while a row of unused terms was excluded from dictionary. In opposite, the Soviet edition contained relevant examples in illustrations. Separate leaves feature colorful advertising posters, among them Mayakovsky performance and MKhAT staging. A folding comparison table contains Continental, Fournier and American systems of typefaces.
The copy also contains a brochure of Gosizdat typefaces (1931) and separate leaves showing an analysis of three color printing.

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