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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The Monotype Recorder | Vol 34, No 3, Autumn 1935
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Typography: Macro + Microaesthetics by Willi Kunz | Verlag Niggli | 2000 edition
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Sphinx | Type specimen fold-out poster | Deberny et Peignot c.1931 | Alfred Latour
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Stanley Morison: First Principles of Typography | The Monotype Corporation, 1955
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Intertype Corporation: Ideal News Face | Type specimen brochure, 1930s?
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Letter and Image by Massin | Translation by Caroline Hillier | Studio Vista 1970
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Fleurons. Their place in history and in print by Mark Arman, The Workshop Press, Thaxted, hand printed, 1988
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Typographica journal old series 1-16 edited by Herbert Spencer. Lund Humphries
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Le Message. Miniature book by Jean-Michel Folon with Giorgio Soavi | Olivetti, 1967
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A Dissertation Upon English Typographical Founders with A Catalogue and Specimen of the Typefoundry of John James by Edward Rowe Mores, OUP, 1963
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Chronique de la Maison Tolmer | Soixante Ans de Création Graphique Paris 1984
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Type Faces in use at The Curwen Press | Type specimen brochure 1930s/40s?
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Type Faces in use at The Curwen Press | 1951 Type specimen brochure
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Type Faces in use at the Curwen Press | 1954 type specimen booklet
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Playbill – a new-old type from Stephenson Blake | Type specimen leaflet
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The Printed Word | Typography by Linotype type specimens | Linotype and Machinery
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Hondred jaren lettergieterij in Amsterdam by Dr G.W. Ovink | Amsterdam, 1951
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Magnet | Type specimen leaflet | Ludwig & Mayer, Frankfurt | Arthur Murawski 1951
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John Baskerville – Type Founder & Printer | Intertype Corporation, New York, 1939
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Bauer Beton type specimen booklet | Bauer Type Foundry Imre Reiner
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The Intertype Cheltonian Family | Advertising type face specimen booklet, 1930s?
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Alphabet Headlines type specimen book produced by Alphabet Ltd, London
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Concerning concrete poetry by Bob Cobbing and Peter Mayer | Slimvolume, 2014
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Slogan | Type specimen leatflet | Ludwig & Mayer, Frankfurt Helmut Matheis 1959
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Våra bokstäver. Tecknade och textade alfabet, boktrycktyper, reklam- och accidenstrycktyper by Erik Lindegren | 1959/60
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Typography Layout Kit | Mergenthaler Linotype Company, Brooklyn, New York, October 1927
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Types Ludwig & Mayer Tipos | Portfolio catalogue type specimens, probably 1950s
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Studio Bold - Typefoundry Amsterdam | Type specimen leaflet | Dolf Overbeek, 1954
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Lettering at Work by Frederick A. Horn | Studio Publication, 1955
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The Poynter Report on Newspaper Type Legibility | The Pointer Institute for Media Studies | Palm Beach Post | Roger Black
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Atrax | Die Schrift für Titelzeilen | Type specimen | Bauer | Heinrich Jost 1926
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Albert Flocon: L'Alphabet. Poème en Prose de V. Hugo | Bernard Letu Editeur 1978
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Alphabet and Image journal No. 5 | September 1947 | Robert Harling, Ian Fleming
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The Gutenberg Galaxy. The Making of Typographic Man | Marshall McLuhan | 1967
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Type Foundry Amsterdam | N. V. Lettergieterij Amsterdam Voorheen N. Tetterode | Brochure, 1957
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Divertissements Typographiques Tome 1, Travaux De Ville | Deberny et Peignot type folder and ephemera
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