Jun 10, 2015 - Sale 2387

Sale 2387 - Lot 120

Price Realized: $ 1,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
TSCHICHOLD. JAN. Typographische Mitteilungen. Zeitschrift des Bildungsverbandes der deutschen Buchdrucker. Issue 9, numbers 4-12. Nine numbers bound into one volume. Illustrated throughout with avant-garde typographical examples by Otto Baumberger, Herbert Bayer, Baz Burchartz, El Lissitzky, Farkas Molnár, Kurt Schwitters, Tschichold, and others. Large 4to, rebound in cloth-backed boards, lacking original wrappers. Leipzig, April-December 1925

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scarcest and most sought-after issue of the landmark work on the new typography and the history of 20th century graphic art. Tschichold designed this special issue for the German typographer's trade journal, wherein he establishes and introduces readers to his "New Typography" built on Russian Suprematism, Dutch Neo-Plasticism, and, most heavily, Constructivism.