This exhibition coincided with a show at the San Francisco Public Library honoring Gudrun & Hermann Zapf.

In 1954, Stauffacher published Janson, a Definitive Collection, at The Greenwood Press here in San Francisco; in 1955, he left for Italy with a grant to study the Giunti Renaissance publishers of Florence. Three years of an Italian holiday ensued for Jack and his family. In 1958, he joined the faculty of Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh, where he revived The Laboratory Press founded by Porter Garnett in the 1920s. In 1965, he printed "Hunt Roman: the birth of a type," an elegant essay on the type just designed by his friend, Hermann Zapf. The previous year, he had returned to the West Coast as typographic adviser to the Stanford University Press. In 1966, he re-opened The Greenwood Press at 300 Broadway where he flourishes to this day.

The show encompasses the discoveries, friendships and projects of those years away from the Coast. Opening September 7, with Hermann and Gudrun Zapf in attendance. Hunt Roman will be on the Vandercook.

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