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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Linotype Times Roman – type specimen fold out poster | Undated
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Linotype Memphis – type specimen leaflet | Undated, possibly 1967
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Linotype Jubilee type face – type specimen leaflet | December 1963 | Newspaper type
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True To Type: Letterpress Printing catalogue | Crafts Council | Colin Banks 1994
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Monotype Alphabet Tracing Sheets – promotional leaflet, The Monotype Corporation
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Visible Language – Research Journal | Volume IX, Number 2, Spring 1975
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Letters from Amsterdam. Presented by Typefoundry Amsterdam to members of the tenth International Congress of Master Printers held in the Netherlands in June 1960
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Typographica 7 (Old Series) edited by Herbert Spencer | Lund Humphries, 1953
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Broadsheet Type-faces in use at The Marlborough College Press undated
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Monotype 'Plantin' type specimen leaflet | The Monotype Corporation | Undated
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Monotype 'Fournier' type specimen leaflet | The Monotype Corporation | Undated
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Typography Papers 7 | University of Reading | Hyphen Press | Editor Paul Stiff, 2007
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Electronic Typesetting: a quarter century of technological upheaval by L.W. Wallis | Foreword by A.H. Phillips | The Paradigm Press, 1984
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Monotype Copyfitting Indicator | Rotating calculator, The Monotype Corporation | Undated, 1950s?
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Can you spot the most famous type faces? Monotype Corporation leaflet, undated
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Youthline script type | Stephenson Blake | Type specimen booklet, undated
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Key to Typefaces – identification leaflet | A. Voysey | National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs, 1962
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FontHaus Fonts Catalog 7 | Type specimen catalogue | Undated
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21 classic type faces for book and periodical setting | The Monotype Corporation Limited | Undated leaflet
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Typographic Milestones by Allan Haley | Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992
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Ontwerpers en Zetters – Brede Vette Antieke | Type specimen leaflet | Cursief N.V. Lettergieterij | Undated, 1950s?
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Linotype Express Summer 1984 Issue No 3 | Published by Linotype-Paul Ltd
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Fit To Be Styled a Typographer by James Moran | Eva Svensson / Westerham, 1978
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Linotype Library – Typeface Handbook | Adobe PostScript Language, 1988
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Specimens of Paladin Series | H.W. Caslon type specimen booklet 1930s?
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Intertype Matrix Handbook | Intertype Limited | Undated
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The Development & Classification of Type Design, School of Printing R.E. O'Brien
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The Ludlow System – brochure of trade press advertisements | Ludlow Typography Co
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Monotype 96-unit Copyfitting System | Technical reference guide, 1980s?
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Typographica 6 new series, December 1962. Edited by Herbert Spencer. Notebook by Robert Brownjohn. Lund Humphries | braille
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Booklet – Stephenson Blake price list, 1st January 1968 | Type, Brass rule, Electros
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Jan Tschichold Designer – The Penguin Years | Richard B. Doubleday | Oak Knoll / Lund Humphries, 2006
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Type specimen broadsheet | Linotype Type Faces for Books | Undated
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Interludes journal, Spring 1968 issue | Harris-Intertype Limited
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Types of the Sixties, by Kenneth Day | Leaflet, reprinted from The Penrose Annual, 1968
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The Monotype Recorder | Volume 42 Number 3, Winter 1962–3 | Easing the adventure into literacy
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