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CONTENTS Jan Tschichold: A Life in Typography

page 7

Plates 16

Early Days 1902-26 17

Work in Germany 1927-32 37

Switzerland 1933-46 50

Penguin Books 1947-49 77

After Penguin 1950-70 97

Chronology 125

Bibliography 127

Index

128