The design world cannot have too many books by or about Jan Tschichold. Like Paul Rand, he exemplified all the qualities of a true "master" designer: he was a risk-taking young designer, the creator of a new typography; he laid out his ideas in clear and practical writings; he was one of the first corporate designers, standardizing design for the vast output of Penguin Books and, if all that weren't enough, in his latter years he created the graceful, instantly classic typeface Sabon. In 1975, Ruari McLean, Tschichold's friend, translator and biographer, published "Jan Tshcichold: Typographer," still a "must-have" for every designer, which covered much the same ground, and in a similar fashion, as this new volume. Jan Tschichold: A Life in Typography has the same format and organization as its predecessor and the two books share many of the same examples of his work, reproduced with similarly limited palettes. Where the books differ is in emphasis: the new book had extensive and invaluable appendices of Tschichold's writings, but the new one has the entire four-page booklet "Penguin Composition Rules," which could stand alone as a primer on basic text design. Another succinct and striking lesson is from his posthumous "The Form of the Book," where Tschichold transforms a banal centered layout into a characteristically elegant and dramatic interplay between type and whitespace. His caption: "But it isn't as easy as it looks." In 1934, Tschichold wrote, "The greatest benefit from looking at good work will always be gained by those who study its finest details and subtleties." What better details to study than Tschichold's own.