Manual of Typography
by Giambattista Bodoni and Stephen Füssel
A reproduction of Bodoni’s lifelong project to document as many typefaces as possible, complete with the dedication by his widow, and an essay from Stephan Füssel placing the book in historical context. The labor required to painstakingly produce such a work is lost in a modern reprint, but the extraordinary love of type persists. The exhaustive exploration serves as a reminder of the attentiveness to detail that marks all great type.