Phototypesetting Fonts; Directory Catalog compiled by Georgy Ivanovich Kozubov (1939–2018) and Vladimir Venediktovich Yefimov (1949–2012), 1983. Book Publishing House [Kniga, Книга], Moscow, Russia. 9 x 13.5, pp. 176. Russian Text. Printed in Moscow. Layout and design by V. Yefimov.
With an Introduction by the authors and Font Index followed by approx. (30) typefaces each with various sizes, styles and classifications. Heavily illustrated with more than (150) character set samples: Russian (Latin) alphabets, special alphabets (Armenian, Georgian, Arabic, Hindi, Bengali, Kannada, Cyrillic and others), complex characters, rules and decorations. Loosely translated from the colophon: “Developed by the type department of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Printing Mechanical Engineering.”
A letter to Volodya Yefimov: “I consider Vladimir Yefimov the central, focal figure in the process of reviving the nearly lost traditions of Russian typography, which commenced in the late 1980s.” — Maxim Zhukov
A very good black hardcover with light wear and a few tiny marks to the covers. Interior pages are clean and binding is tight.