I always looked forward to receiving my copy of U&lc least until the mid-nineties. By then I felt the title was suffering from designer whimsy. The pc and design software had taken over allowing creative folk, with a few keystrokes, to interpret the copy and images in a very personal way (the ultimate extreme of this was David Carson's work on Ray Gun magazine). I was pleased to find in the book that all the U&lc covers are shown and apart from the first issue I think have them all.
The book reproduces selected pages from the magazine and nicely does it by printing the words and images on a light brown panel representing the original pages, the 175 screen on the soft matt art paper helps, too. I thought the choice of selected articles was first class, the magazine always considered type in broadest terms, for example: finding A to Z on butterfly wings or a spread showing thirteen transit tickets from the early decades of the last century.
If you want to know about typography from the early seventies onwards this book is a useful compendium of creativity.
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