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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Monotype Newsletter – September 1968, No 84 | The Monotype Corporation
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Monotype Newsletter – May 1967, No 81 | The Monotype Corporation
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One-Line Specimens of Ludlow Typefaces | Type specimens booklet | Ludlow Typograph Company, Chicago | Undated, 1930s?
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Unjustified texts perspectives on typography by Robin Kinross. Hyphen Press, reprint 2011
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Typefaces for desktop publishing. A user guide by Alison Black | Architecture Design and Technology Press, 1990
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The Imprint: Number One | Wynkn de Worde reprint | Curwen Press, 1972
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The Monotype Recorder | Hans Schmoller: Typographer | Number 6, April 1987
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TYPOS: International Journal of Typography | London College of Printing
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Letterspace. The Newsletter of the Type Directors Club 1997 | With Nicolete Gray obituary
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Type 90. ATypI (Association Typographique Internationale) | 1990 conference guide
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An Approach to Type by John R. Biggs | New revised edition, Blandford, 1961
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The Monotype Recorder | Beatrice Warde | Volume 44, Number 1, Autumn 1970
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Catalogue of Typefounders' Specimens... | Birrell & Garnett | Graham Pollard, 1972 reprint
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Introduction to Typography by Oliver Simon | Pelican – revised 1954 edition
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Visible Language journal XX I | Winter 1986 | Special issue – Pattern Poetry
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An introduction to The Linotype – with key reference charts | Undated leaflet
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Visible Language – Volume XXI Number 3/4, 1987 | The Avant-Garde and the Text
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The Monotype Recorder – Fifty years of type-cutting 1900-1950 | Volume 39, No. 2, 1950
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Letterpress card insert produced by G.F. Smith & Son (London) | Cover paper specialists
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Techniques of Typography by Cal Swann | Lund Humphries, 1969
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Type specimen fold-out broadsheet | Linotype Book Faces | Revised edition, 1962
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Modern Man in the Making by Otto Neurath. Secker & Warburg, London, 1939 | Isotype
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Type specimen broadsheet – Linotype Pilgrim | Eric Gill | Undated
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Monotype Newsletter 63 – September 1961 | Urdu newspaper | Javed Press
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Type specimen sheet – Linotype Maximus newpaper type | Undated leaflet
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Nonesuch News – 1935 – broadsheet/poster folded | The Nonesuch Press
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The Typographical Adventure of William Morris | William Morris Society exhibition booklet, 1957
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Printing types from the Caslon Letter Foundry | Stephenson Blake Sheffield, 1953
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A Catalogue of Typefaces, Borders, Rules | Western Typesetting Co, Bristol 1930s?
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MiceType Alphabets Inc. Summer/Fall 1988 | Volume II, no. 1&2
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Stanley Morison at Cambridge. Wynkyn de Worde Society reprint | Curwen Press, 1974
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Monotype ‘Monotype Imprint' type specimen leaflet | The Monotype Corporation | Undated
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Rhyme & Reason: A Typographic Novel | Erik Spiekermann | H. Berthold AG, 1987
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Typography Papers 5 | University of Reading, 2003 | Editor Paul Stiff
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Soldans Introduce Variante to the British Printer | Soldans Ltd | Undated
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Pages from Books Set on the Monotype Composing Machine | The Monotype Corporation, 1931
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