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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Tower – type specimen sheet for American Type Founders ATF | Undated, presumed 1930s
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Bodoni Types | Soldans Limited type specimen leaflet, undated
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Soldans' Types specimen leaflet – Ludwig & Mayer Type Foundry | Soldans Limited
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Poliphilus type specimen leaflet – with the italic of Aldo Blado | Monotype Corporation
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Joanna type specimen leaflet | Eric Gill | Monotype Corporation 1937
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Charme – type specimen leaflet & inserts | Schriftgiesserei Ludwig & Mayer
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Index to Linotype Matrix Founts | Linotype, London booklet 1975
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Mistral type specimen leaflet with 6 inserts | Typefoundry Amsterdam | Roger Excoffon
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'Monotype' Corporation | Typographic and Technical Publications order form leaflet
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Deberny et Peignot Divertissements Typographiques | Type specimen sheet
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Ultrabold No 9 – Journal of St Bride Library | Winter 2010/11
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Ultrabold No 8 – Journal of St Bride Library | Summer 2010
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A history of the alphabet throughout the ages by David Diringer | Gresham Books 1983
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Type Journal Association A Journal of the Association Typographique Internationale ATypI Vol 2, No 1, 1998
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The Monotype Recorder | The Typecasters, Ellic Howe | Vol 41, No 1, Summer 1957
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The Monotype Recorder | Vol 31, No 244, March-April 1932
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The Monotype Recorder | Vol 14, No. 151, Jan-Feb 1915 | Includes 'The War and the Printer'
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The Monotype Recorder, Vol X, No CXVII, September 1911
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Harris-Intertype Matrix staff Handbook, undated
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Rookledge’s International Typefinder | Christopher Perfect, revised by Phil Baines, 1990
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In our own words | The Wynkyn de Worde Society 1957-2007
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Variations on the typographer by Linda René-Martin Penrose Annual offprint 1962 signed by author
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A Prospectus for Pages of Type Published by The Workshop Press 1990
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Type for the book page at the Pitman Press ed Leonard Chave Hamish Hamilton 1984
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Spanish sixteenth-century Printing by Henry Thomas | Ernest Benn, 1926
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Letters into Words by Michael Harvey | William Clowes & Co, 1973
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Design in Typography by John C. Tarr | Phoenix House Ltd, London, 1951
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Introduction to Typography by Oliver Simon | Faber & Faber, London, 1963
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Types Best Remembered edited by Robert Norton | Parsimony Press, 1993
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Twentieth Century Type by Lewis Blackwell | Laurence King, 1992
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Monotype Typeface Library catalogue Type 90.4
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Schrift ist nicht nur zum Lesen da. Eine Studie über den Charakter der Schrift von Peter Willberg | D. Stempel AG, 1982 | Limited edition, numbered 77
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Alternative Characters. Figures and “Swash” Sorts | Monotype Corporation, undated
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Monotype Christmas card 1989, unfinished | Ellington | Design by Michael Harvey
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Officina Bodoni: The Typographic Art of Giovanni Mardersteig Library of Congress
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The Monotype Recorder – Languages of the World issue | Volume 42 No 4, Summer 1963
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