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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Eric Gill's Joanna Typeface | Letterpress ephemera sheet | Skelton's Press, 1981
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Modern Type Display and the Use of Ornament | Henry T. Wyse, Edinburgh 1911
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Keyboard and Keyboard Light | Stephenson Blake type specimen booklet
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Futurist Typography and the Liberated Text, by Alan Bartram | The British Library, 2005
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Flowers & Flourishes including a newly annotated edition of A Suite of Fleurons by John Ryder | The Bodley Head for Mackays | 1976
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Intertype De Vinne | Type specimen booklet | Presumably early 20th century
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Typographical Technical Queries and Answers | Typographical Technical Publishing Co. 1901
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Beton Medium Condensed & Bold Condensed type specimen leaflets | Soldans Ltd, 1930s?
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Blackletter: Type and National Identity edited by Peter Bain and Paul Shaw | The Herb Lubalin Study Center of Design and Typography | Princeton Architectural Press, 1998
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Flowers & Flourishes by John Ryder | The Bodley Head, 1976
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Odd Types - photography of letterforms | Fontware Limited brochure
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'Monotype’ Faces by Monotyping Service Limited | Type face brochure, undated
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A list of type specimens. The Bibliographical Society, London, 1942 | Harry Carter
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Art & Industry. March 1954. Volume 56 Number 333 | The Studio | includes article Housing and Typography
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The printer's terms. Technical terms of the printing industry by Rudolf Hostettler | Zollikofer & Co AG, 1969, fifth revised edition
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Pen & Print. The Legacy of Edward Johnston 1906-2006 | The Edward Johnston Foundation and the Society of Scribes and Illuminators, 2006 | signed by Gerald Fleuss
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PM – Journal for Production Managers | Issue 4 No. 1, Sept 1937 | cover design by Laszlo Matulay
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The Monotype Recorder New Series Volume 9. The Dutch Connection limited edition no. 1054/1250
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Typographer Spring 1958 Volume XIX No. 1 | In Memory of William A. Dwiggins | Rochester Institute of Technology, New York. Short note by Beatrice Warde
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A short list shewing Types and decorative Borders with stock blocks and Devices used by the Westerham Press | The Westerham Press, 1951
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Stepping-Stones to the Art of Typography by Henry Guppy | The University Press, Manchester, 1928
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Print: America's Graphic Design Magazine – November-December 1986 XL:VI
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The Development of Arabic Numerals in Europe by G. F. Hill | Clarendon Press, 1915
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The Form of the Book by Jan Tschichold | Lund Humphries, 1991 English edition
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Open Air: The Changing Landscape of 20th Century Signage | 2000
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Index to Classified Lists of Monotype Special Matrices | Folder & type specimens
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Behind the Type. The Life Story of Frederic W. Goudy by Bernard Lewis | Department of Printing Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh, 1941
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Typographica (New Series) journal promotional leaflet 1960
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Small type specimen leaflet | Deberny et Peignot, undated
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The Typographic Arts by Stanley Morison | The Sylvan Press, 1949
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Students' Type Study Leaflets | Educational pack | The Monotype Corporation, undated
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Introduction to Typography by Oliver Simon | Faber and Faber, 1945
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Folio – schmal mager, schmal halbfett | Type specimen folder and ephemera | Bauersche Giesserei
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Beton type specimen brochure | Bauersche (Bauer) Giesserei, Frankfurt Am Main
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Divertissements Typographiques 2 | Deberny & Peignot / Soldans | Maximilien Vox
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Stanley Morison by Nicolas Barker | Macmillan, 1972
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