English translation by Ingrid Li
Typesetting by V & M Graphics, Inc.

Translation of Schrift und Schrieben, Sixth Edition
by Hildegard Korger

Copyright © 1986 Fachbuchverlag GmbH Leipzig
Translation copyright © 1992 by Design Press

First published in Great Britain in 1992 by

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ISBN 0-85331-625-2

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Korger, Hildegard.

[Schrift und Schreiben. English]

Handbook of type and lettering / Hildegard

Korger.
p. cm.

Translation of: Schrift und Schreiben.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8306-1834-1

1. Type and type-founding. 2. Lettering.

I. Title
Z250.K63 1991 91-19575

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Dedicated to my teacher,
Professor Albert Kapr