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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Supplementary Catalogue of Printing Novelties | Soldan & Co, Book No. 11
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Type Design Developments 1970 to 1985 by LW Wallis | National Composition Association, 1985
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Stanley Morison Displayed by Herbert Jones | Frederick Muller Limited, 1976
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Re-Dressing the House-Set Advertisements | Reprinted from the Monotype Recorder
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Monotype Corporation | Falstaff type specimens x 4 | Printed by Oliver Burridge & Co
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2 x Stephenson Blake type specimen sheets: Wide Sans and Narrow Sans Italic | Wace Group
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Typographic 13. Journal of the Society of Typographic Designers March 1979
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Finer Points in the spacing & arrangement of Type by Geoffrey Dowding | Hartley & Marks, 1995
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Ludlow/Brightype/Elrod | Folder for Ludlow Typography Company | Empty folder
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Typefounders - collection of 48 type specimen sheets | Venus, Grotesque, Folio, Fortune, News Gothic, etc
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Letters & Lettering: A Treatise with 200 Examples | Frank Chouteau Brown, 1921
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The Nymph and the Grot by James Mosley | Friends of St Bride, 1999 | signed
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Keepsake presented to the Friends of The Composing Room, Inc. A Specimen of Printing Types Benjamin Franklin Bache's Printing Office
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A History of the Old English Letter Foundries With Notes Historical and Bibliographical on the Rise and Progress of English Typography by Talbot Baines Reed | enlarged version by A.F. Johnson | Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1974
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Design With Type by Carl Dair | University of Toronto Press, 1988
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Important Announcement to Users of Intertype Matrices | 1959 booklet
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Type specimen sheet | Paganini Alessandro Butti Raffaello Bertieri | Societá Nebiolo
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Type specimen sheet | Famiglia Cairoli | Societá Nebiolo Torino Il Dugento Exhibition, 1957
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Type specimen – Ludlow Garamond Bold and Italic | Ludlow Typography Company | Undated
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Report on the Typography of Cambridge University Press | Bruce Rogers | Wynkyn de Worde Society, 1968
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Type Designs by A.F. Johnson | Third revised edition | Andre Deutsch, 1966
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Type Specimen Book of 'Monotype' Rules, Borders, Figures etc | The Monotype Corporation | Undated
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Typographic connections. A European conference about typographic history, theory and practice | The Monotype Conference, 1992
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Belgica Typographica 1541-1600 Volume one only| Bibliotheca Regia Bruxellensis, B De Graaf, 1968 | from the library of J.W. Joliffe
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Prospectus for On Type Faces by Stanley Morison | Medici Fleuron 1923
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Text Typefaces | Equation Graphics Ltd, London type specimen booklet
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Tact in Typographical Design by Stanley Morison | A Type Specimen designed by Will Carter at The Rampant Lions Press, 1962
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Alphabet-Album | Joseph-Balthazar Silvestre, 1843 | Edited by J. Techener, Place du Louvre, No. 12
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Alphabets – compiled by Laurence Scarfe | Batsford, 1954
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Signal Light/Medium/Black | Berthold Type Foundry type specimen leaflet | Design Walter Wege
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Nineteenth XIXth Century Ornamented Types & Title Pages by Nicolette Gray | Faber & Faber, 1938 | ex-library Westminster Public Libraries
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The Typographic Scene by Walter Tracy | Gordon Fraser, London, 1988
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Essai typographique et bibliographique de l'histoire de la gravure sur bois. Pour faire suite aux costumes anciens et modernes de César Vécellio by A.F. Didot | César Vécellio, 1863
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Type & Typography. Highlights from the Matrix, the review for printers & bibliophiles | Mark Batty, 2003
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Firmin Didot roman/bold/italic | Ludwig & Mayer type specimen leaflet | Undated
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Libra - Typefoundry Amsterdam | Type specimen leaflet | Undated c. 1950 de | Type designed by S. H. De Roos in 1937
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