This booklet was first published in 1959 as a handmade typographic notebook of pasted upletters and words in one size typeface. In 1962, it was published as an insert in Typographica magazine. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

The authors present the history of their first publication of this book in the intoduction. Steven Heller, Kit Hinrichs, April Greiman, Michael Carabetta and George Lois all contributed statements in the afterward about the influence this book, first published in 1962, had on them as graphic designers. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.