Collection: Typography
This large collection of vintage typography-focused books, catalogues and journals explores how type design influences perception and conveys emotions, while also providing creative inspiration for designers, illustrators, and anyone passionate about the visual power of language.
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Choose a Good Printer | Monotype Corporation small leaflet | Undated
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How & Why Up-to-Date Printers Use the all-British 'Monotype' Corporation leaflet
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Typeface Nomenclature – British Standards Institution booklet | BS 2961 : 1958
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Typography Basic Principles. Influences and trends since the 19th century revised edition by John Lewis | Studio Vista, 1967
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Types & Typography | Phil Baines & Andrew Haslam | Lawrence King, 2002
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House Style of Composition for the Publications of The Studio Ltd | 1948 booklet
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Chart of small capitals & related figures | The Fanfare Press type specimen | December 1947
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Hoe de Letters Kwamen by Joke Linders | Annie M G Schmidt | Letterkundig Museum/ Kinder Boeken Museum, 1995
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Some Account of the Typography of St. Albans in the fifteenth century by William Blades | John Roberts Press, London, 1976
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Peignot Bold. Small type specimen leaflet | American Wood Type Manufacturing Co
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Beton Bold, Medium and Extra Bold | Intertype Corporation specimen booklet
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Ten Essays on Typography edited by Jack Raglan | White House Press | BPS Bundle, 2010
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The Monotype Recorder, Spring 1937 issue | Monotype Corporation | Black Letter
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Beton Series by Heinrich Jost | Wesselhoeft/Soldans type specimen booklet
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Alphabets To Order. The Literature of Nineteenth Century Typefounders' Specimens by Alastair Johnston | Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, 2000
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[Lucian] Bernhard Roman Bold type specimen booklet | Frederic Wesselhoeft, undated
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How to Select Type Faces | Intertype Corporation, Brooklyn, New York 1949?
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Waverley: a New Intertype Typeface | Type specimen booklet, 1941?
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Le Naudin price list leaflet | Type specimens | Miller & Richard Letter Founders
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Programme for the special reception and display arranged jointly by the Victoria and Albert Museum's Word & Image Department, the Wynkyn de Worde Society and the Edward Johnston Foundation held at the V&A, 13 April 2005 | intro Dr Rowan Watson
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Can excellence survive technical progress? Fernand Baudin | Wynkyn de Worde, 1969
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How to Select Type Faces especially Intertype [Corporation] Faces booklet, 1935?
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The introduction of a metric system in typography by A. Stork | 1967 reprint
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A-D An Intimate Journal for Art Directors | April to May 1942, vol VIII No. 4
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120 Monotype Display Faces | Type specimen booklet, undated
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Printing in Czechoslovakia in the Fifteenth Century. Five hundred years | The Association Typographique Internationale, London, 1969
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One-hundred title pages 1500-1800. Selected and arranged with an introduction and notes by A.F. Johnson | John Lane Bodley Head 1928 limited edition of 100
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The Monotype Recorder | July, August, September 1914 No. 149 Vol. 13
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Mercury and Mercury Light – two new script types | Stephenson Blake 1950s
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Type founts and sizes held at The Fanfare Press | Type specimen leaflet
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Better Settings Faster – Odhams Press, London | Ludlow Typesetting Service, 1930/40s?
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No more war, war never again. Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and all mankind | Typetalks, No 143 Nov-Dec 1965 | The Advertising Typographers Association of America (ATA)
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Metropolis Bulletin Issue 1 | Edited by Reginald Hutchings | Metropolis Press, May 1937
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National Institute for Typographic Research (ANCT) | 1992 Georges Bonnin
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Pica equivalents – Pica-to-Ems conversion table | Double-sided reference card
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Alphabet Exhibition. The Alphabet Throughout the Ages | Staples Press London, 1953
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