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Robert Estienne, Royal Printer: An Historical Study of the Elder Stephanus.
Armstrong, Elizabeth.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Aldus and his Dream Book.
Barolini, Helen.
New York: Italica Press, 1992.
Miscellaneous Monotype Borders and Ornaments.
Bixler, Michael and Winifred.
Skaneateles, NY: Michael and Winifred Bixler. 1995.
Zapf's Civilité Disclosed.
Baskin, Leonard.
Leeds, MA: Gehenna Press, 1995
The First Writing Book: Arrighi's Operina.
Benson, John Howard.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1954.
Manuale Tipografico Del Cavaliere Giambattista Bodoni.
London: Holland Press, 1960.
The Art of the Book in California: Five Comtemporary Presses.
Bringhurst, Robert.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011.
A Bibliography of the Gehenna Press, 1942-1975.
Brook, Stephen.
Northampton, MA: J.P. Dwyer, 1976.
In the School of Baskin.
Chandler, Bruce, et al.
Boston: Society of Printers, 2008.
Over typografie en grafische kunst.
Dooijes, Dick.
1966.
Augustino Da Siena.
Fairbank, Alfred J.
London: Merrion Press, 1975.
Italian Old Style: A New Type Designed by Frederic Goudy.
Goudy, Frederic. Designed by Bruce Rogers.
Philadelphia: Lanston Monotype Corp., 1924.
Modern German Book Design: an exhibit arranged by Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels, Frankfurt/M and Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach am Main 1959.
Halbey, Hans.
Frankfurt em Main: Klingspor Museum, 1959.
Ornamental Initials: The Woodcut Initials of Christopher Plantin, A Complete Catalogue.
Harvard, Stephen.
New York: Friends of the Plantin-Moretus Museum, 1947.
Fournier, The Compleat Typographer.
Hutt, Allen.
London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1972 .
Printing for Kingdom, Empire, and Republic: Treasures from the Archives of the Imprimerie Nationale.
Fletcher, H. George, ed.
New York: Grolier Club, 2011.
Benton Types: Typefaces Designed or Adapted by Morris Fuller Benton.
Hitchcock, Maureen Delaney.
Rochester: Press of the Good Mountain, 1978.
The Little ABC Book of Rudolf Koch.
Koch, Rudolf.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1976.
Fleishman on Punchcutting.
Janssen, Frans A.
Aartswoud, Netherlands: Spectatorpers, 1994.
Technique & Design in the History of Printing.
Janssen, Frans A.
Antwerp: Hes & de Graaf, 2004.
Manuale Zapficum.
Kelly, Jerry.
Rochester: Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2009.
Manuale Zapficum.
Kelly, Jerry.
New York: The Typophiles, 2008.
American Wood Type: 1828-1900.
Kelly, Rob Roy.
New York: Da Capo Press, 1969.
De Grote Vijf. S.H. De Roos, J.F. Van Royoen, J. van Krimpen, C. Nypels en A.A.M. Stols.
Lommen, Mathieu.
Amsterdam: Buhmann-Ubbens, 1991.
Eric Gill.
MacCarthy, Fiona.
Boston: Faber & Faber, 1989.
Laudatio for Hermann Zapf | In Memoriam Giovanni Mardersteig.
Mardersteig, Giovanni and Hermann Zapf.
New York: Kelly / Winterton Press, 1983.
Visionaries & Fanatics: Type Design & The Private Press.
Maret, Russell.
Berkeley, CA: Codex Foundation, 2010.
First Principles of Typography.
Morison, Stanley.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967.
A Catalogue of Books Printed by John Henry Nash.
O'Day, Nell.
San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1937.
John Baskerville of Birmingham, Letter Founder & Printer.
Pardoe, F.E.
London: Frederick Muller Limited, 1975.
Printers & Printing.
Pottinger, David.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1941.
Bont-Boek Over Bond en Boek.
Romijn, J and A.L. Sötemann.
Amsterdam: 1955.
Typefounding in America, 1787-1825.
Silver, Rollo G.
Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1965.
Counterpunch: making type in the sixteenth century, designing typefaces now.
Smeijers, Fred.
London: Hyphen Press, 2011.
Vespasiano Amphiareo's Writing Book, Vinegia, Mdliiii. Das Schreibbuch Des Vespasiano Amphiareo.
Tschichold, Jan, ed.
Stuttgart-Bad Cannstadt: Dr. Crantz'sche Druckerei, 1975.
Gute Schriftformen.
Tschichold, Jan.
Basel: Lehrmittelverlag, 1944-48.
Concerning Some Words by Beatrice Warde & Types by Varied Hands.
Warde, Beatrice.
New Jersey: Pickering Press, 1953.
Herman Zapf and His Design Philosophy.
Zapf, Hermann.
Chicago: Society of Typographic Arts, 1987.
Manuale Typographicum.
Zapf, Hermann.
New York: Museum Books, 1954.
E McKnight Kauffer.
Webb, Brian and Peyton Skipworth.
Suffolk: Antique Collectors Club, 2007.
Festival of Britain: 1951.
Rennie, Paul.
Suffolk: Antique Collectors Club, 2007.
David Gentleman.
Webb, Brian and Peyton Skipworth.
Suffolk: Antique Collectors Club, 2009.
Harold Curwen & Oliver Simon: Curwen Press.
Webb, Brian and Peyton Skipworth.
Suffolk: Antique Collectors Club, 2009.
Typographic Periodicals
Signature (A Catalogue of Italian Writing-Books of the Sixteenth Century by A.F. Johnson).
New Series, 10.
Plainstow: Signature, 1950.
Ars Typographica.
Goudy, Frederic W. and Douglas McMurtrie, eds.
Westport, CN: Greenwood Reprint Corporation, 1970.
Book Jacket Designers Guild Annual, 1948-1953 (6 vols.).
New York: A-D Gallery, 1948-1953.
Fine Print: The Review for the Arts of the Book
San Francisco.
1980-1990, 44 issues (complete run).
The Fleuron.
Morison, Stanley & Oliver Simon, eds.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1923-30, 7 vols (complete run).
Index to The Dolphin and The Fleuron.
Somers, Jeanne.
New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
Matrix: A Review for Printers and Bibliophiles.
Various authors.
Herefordshire: Whittington Press, 1981-2011, 29 vols (complete run).
Books
Alphabetical by author...
American Specimen Book of Type Styles
American Type Founders Company
Jersey City, NJ: 1912.
Early Printers' Marks
(anon.)
London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1962.
Symbols, Signs, Letters: About Handwriting, Experimenting with Alphabets, and the Interpretation of Texts
Andersch, Martin
New York: Design Press, 1989.
De Caratteri de Leopardo Antonozzi
[facsimile]
Nieuwkoop: Hes & De Graaf, 1971.
The Writings of Stanley Morison: A Handlist
Appleton, Tony.
Brighton: [privately printed], 1976.
Type Studies: The Norstedt Collection of Matrices in the Typefoundry of the Royal Printing Office.
Axel-Nilsson, Christian.
Stockholm: Norstedts Tryckeri, 1983.
Type & Typography
Baines, Phil & Andrew Haslam
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 2002.
Some Notes on the Printing & Publishing in Renaissance Venice
Bajetta, C.M.
New York: The Typophiles, 2000.
Stanley Morison
Barker, Nicolas
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Officina Bodoni: Montagnola · Verona
Books Printed by Giovanni Mardersteig on the Hand Press,
1923-1977
Barr, John
London: The British Library, 1978.
Stanley Morison: A Portrait
Barr, John.
London: British Museum, 1971.
Five Hundred Years of Book Design
Bartram, Alan
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001.
The Practice of Letters
Becker, David P.
Cambridge: Harvard College Library, 1997.
Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles
Bennett, Paul A.
Savannah, GA: Frederic C. Beiln, 1991.
Kelmscott, Doves & Aschendene
Bennett, Paul A.
Los Angles: Ward Ritchie Press (for The Book Club of California), 1952.
Printing & the Mind of Merker: A Bibliographical Study
Berger, Sidney E.
New York, The Grolier Club, 1997.
Fine Print on Type: The Best of Fine Print Magazine on Type and Typography
Bigelow, Charles, et al.
San Francisco: Fine Print / Bedford Arts, 1989.
Art of the Printed Book, 1455-1955
Blumenthal, Joseph
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973.
The Printed Book in America
Blumenthal, Joseph
Hanover: University Press of New England, 1989 (1977).
Roman Lettering for Students
Bostock, James
New York: The Studio Publications, 1959.
About Real Books
Bringhurst, Robert.
Berkeley, CA: Editions Koch, 2008.
Carving the Elements: A Companion to The Fragments of Parmenides
Bringhurst, Robert, et al.
Berkeley, CA: Editions Koch, 2004.
The Elements of Typographic Style,
1st & 3rd Ed.
Bringhurst, Robert
Vancouver: Hartley & Marks, 1992 & 2009.
The Solid Form of Language
Bringhurst, Robert
Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2004.
The Surface of Meaning: Books & Book Design in Canada
Bringhurst, Robert
Vancouver: Canadian Centre for Studies in Publishing / Simon Fraser University, 2008.
Spread showcasing tengo sed.
The Typographic Mind
Bringhurst, Robert
Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2006.
Wild Language
Bringhurst, Robert
Nanaimo, BC: Institute for Coastal Research, 2006.
Frederic Goudy
Bruckner, D.J.R.
New York: Abrams, 1990.
Printing Poetry
Burke, Clifford
San Francisco: Scarab Press, 1980.
Type Spaces: in-house norms in the typography of Aldus Manutius
Burnhill, Peter
London: Hyphen Press, 2003.
The Ideal Book: Private Presses in the Netherlands, 1910-2010.
Capelleveen, Paul van, et al.
The Hague: Museum Meermanno, 2010.
Civilité Types.
Carter, Harry & H.D.L. Vervliet.
Oxford: Oxford Bibliographical Society, 1966.
A History of the Oxford University Press.
Carter, Harry.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.
The House of Enschedé: 1703-1953
Carter, Harry & Jan van Krimpen.
Harlaam: Enschedé, 1953.
A View of Early Typography: Up to About 1600.
Carter, Harry.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.
A View of Early Typography: Up to About 1600
Carter, Harry
London: Hyphen Press, 2002.
A Handlist of the Writings of Stanley Morison
Carter, John
Cambridge: Privately printed at the Cambridge University Press, 1950.
Typographic Design: Form & Communication.
Carter, Rob, et al.
Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Twentieth-Century Type Designers
Carter, Sebastian
New York: W.W. Norton, 1995.
Catalogus van de Typographische Verzameling van Joh. Enschedé & Zonen
Haarlem, Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1916.
The Private Press
Cave, Roderick.
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1983. 2nd ed.
The Anatomy of Lettering
Chappell, Warren.
New York: Loring & Mussey, 1935.
A Short History of the Printed Word
Chappel, Warren (& Robert Bringhurst)
Vancouver: Hartley & Marks, 1998.
A Short History of the Printed Word
Chappel, Warren (& Robert Bringhurst)
New York: Dorset Press, 1970.
Designing Type
Cheng, Karen
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005.
The Art of Bookbinding
Cobdon-Sanderson, T.J.
Dundas, ON: Aliquando Press, 1986.
Bookbinding
Cobdon-Sanderson, T.J.
Dundas, ON: Aliquando Press, 1989.
The Closing of the Doves Press.
Cobden-Sanderson, T.J.
San Francisco: Standford University Libraries, 1969.
The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful
Cobden-Sanderson, T.J.
Berkeley, CA: Arif Press, 1981.
The Journals of Thomas James Cobden-
Sanderson
New York: MacMillan, 1926.
Majesty, Order and Beauty: Selections from the Journals of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson
Reuter, William, ed.
Dundas, ON: The Alequando Press, 2007. Limited to 45 copies, this is #24. Slipcased.
A Renaissance Alphabet: Il Perfetto Scrittore, Parte Seconda
Cresci, Giovan Francesco. Introduction by Donald M. Anderson.
Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1971.
To Be a Printer.
Crutchley, Brooke.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Two Men: Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge
Crutchley, Brooke.
Cambridge: Privately printed at the Cambridge University Press, 1968. In slipcase.
Pietro Bembo: 'Foster Father of the Modern Book'
Danforth, Ted
New York: Typophiles, 2003.
Book Typography, 1815-1965 in Europe and the United States of America
Day, Kenneth
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966.
The Shaping of Our Alphabet.
Denman, Frank.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1955.
Manual of Printing Office Practice
De Vinne, Theodore Low
Forest Hills, NY: Battery Park Book Company, 1978.
The Practice of Typography: Correct Composition
DeVinne, Theodore Low.
New York: Oswald Publishing, 1914.
The Alphabet Throughout the Ages and in All Lands: Staples Alphabet Exhibition.
Diringer, David.
London: Staples Press, 1953.
Jan Tschichold: Designer - The Penguin Years
Doubleday, Richard B.
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2006.
Factors in the Choice of Typefaces
Dowding, Geoffrey.
London: Wace & Co., 1957.
Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type
Dowding, Geoffrey
Vancouver: Hartley & Marks, 1995.
An Introduction to the History of Printing Types
Dowding, Geoffrey
London: Wace & Company, 1961.
A History of the Nonesuch Press
Dreyfus, John.
London: Nonesuch Press, 1981.
Into Print
Dreyfus, John.
Boston: Godine, 1995.
The Survival of Baskerville's Punches
Dreyfus, John.
Cambridge: Privately printed at the Cambridge University Press,1949.
Type Specimen Facsimiles Reproductions Of Fifteen Type Specimen Sheets Issued Between The Sixteenth And Eighteenth Centuries
Dreyfus, John, ed. Includes Stanley Morison's essay "On the Classification of Typographical Variations."
Lonson: Bowes & Bowes Putnam, 1963.
The Work of Jan van Krimpen: An Illustrated Record
Dreyfus, John
Lonson: Sylvan Press, 1952.
25: A Quarter-Century of Triumphs and Disasters in the Microcosm of the Private Press & Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing.
Duensing, Paul Hayden.
Calamazoo, MI: Private Press & Typefoundry of Paul Hayden Duensing, 1976.
The Construction of Roman Letters
Dürer, Albrecht.
Designed by Bruce Rogers.
Cambridge: Dunster House, 1924.
Of the Just Shaping of Letters.
Dürer, Albrecht.
New York: Grolier Club, 1917. Designed by Bruce Rogers.
Doors of Perception: Essays in Book Typography
Duncan, Harry
Austin: W. Thomas Taylor, 1987.
Rookledge's International Handbook of Type Designers: A Biographical Directory
Eason, Ron & Sara Rookledge
Surrey, England: Sarema Press, 1991.
Hoi Barbaroi: A Quarter Century at Barbarian Press
Elsted, Crispin, et al.
Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 2004.
Utile Dulci: The First Decade at Barbarian Press, 1977-1987
Elsted, Crispin and Jan Elsted. Mission, BC: Barbarian Press, 1988.
Enschedé Printing Works Hand-set Type (Specimen)
Haarlem: Enschedé, 1961.
2 vols.
Enschedé Type Specimen
Haarlem: Enschedé, c. 1960.
Typefoundries in the Netherlands, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century
Enschedé, Charles (Harry Carter, trans.)
Haarlem: Stichting Museum Enschedé, 1978.
A Selection of Types
Haarlem: Enschedé, 1931.
Adieu Aesthetica & Mooie Pagina's!
Museum van het Boet, Uitgeverij de Buitenkant, Museum Enschedé, 1995.
A Book of Scripts
Fairbank, Alfred.
Middlesex: Penquin Books, 1952
A Handwriting Manaul.
Fairbank, Alfred.
London: Faber & Faber, 1954.
Humanistic Script of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Fairbank, Alfred, and R.W. Hunt.
Oxford: Bodleian Library, 1960.
New Book Design.
Fawcett-Tang, Roger.
London: Lawrence King, 2004.
The Complete Manual of Typography
Felici, James
Berkeley: Peachpit (Adobe) Press, 2003.
Alphabetum Romanum
Feliciano, Felice.
Ed. Giovanni Mardersteig.
Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1960.
Alphabetum Romanum (Facimile)
Feliciano, Felice.
New York: Belser Incorporated, 1988. 2 vols. Slipcased.
L'"antiquario" Felice Feliciano veronese tra epigrafia antica, letteratura e arti del libro
Padova: Editrice Antenore, 1995.
Fine Printing in the Twentieth Century: Selections From the Collection of Kenneth Auchincloss.
New York: Grolier Club, 2005.
In Praise of Aldus Manutius
Fletcher, H. George
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995.
Manuel Typographique/Fournier on Typefounding.
Fournier, Pierre Simon. Ed. Harry Carter.
Darmstadt: Technische Hochschule, 1995.
The Private Presses
Franklin, Colin
Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, 1969.
Handwriting Manual
Fugger, Wolffgang.
Trans. Richard Platt.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960.
A Book of Alphabets for Douglas Cleverdon Drawn by Eric Gill
Gill, Eric
Wellingborough: Christopher Skelton, 1987.
An Essay on Typography
Gill, Eric
Boston: David R. Godine, 1988.
Autobiography
Gill, Eric
New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1945.
A Constructed Roman Alphabet.
Goines, David Lance.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1982.
The Alphabet, and Elements of Lettering.
Goudy, Frederic W.
New York: Dorset Press, 1989.
Goudy's Type Designs [Complete]
Goudy, Frederic W.
New Rochelle: The Myriade Press (for the Typohiles), 1978.
The Capitals of the Trajan Column of Rome
Goudy, Frederic W.
London: Oxford University Press, 1936.
Types and Type Design
Goudy, Frederic W.
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1936.
Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making.
Goudy, Frederic W.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1977.
Typologia
Goudy, Frederic W.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1977.
A History of Lettering: Creative Experiement and Letter Identity.
Gray, Nicolete.
Boston: David R. Godine, 1986.
Lettering as Drawing
Gray, Nicolette.
New York: Taplinger, 1971.
Cultures of Print: Essays in the History of the Book
Hall, David D.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
Two Decades of Hamady & The Perishable Press.
Hamady, Walter.
St. Louis: University of Missouri, 1984.
The Letterforms and Type Designs of Eric Gill
Harling, Robert.
Westerham Press / Eva Svenson, 1979.
Personal Impressions: The Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-Century America
Harris, Elizabeth M.
Boston: David R. Godine, 2004.
An Italic Copybook: The Cataneo Manuscript
Harvard, Stephen
New York: Taplinger Publishing, 1981.
The Education of a Typographer
Heller, Steven.
New York: Alworth Press, 2004.
Texts on Type
Heller, Steven & Philip B. Meggs
New York: Alworth Press, 2001.
On Book Design
Hendel, Richard
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
The Complete Typographer
Hill, Will
Upper Salle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005.
Printing Types & How to Use Them
Hlasta, Stanley, C..
Pittsburg: Carnegie Press, 1950.
Edward Johnson, Master Calligrapher.
Holliday, Peter.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Perss, 2007.
The Art of the Book
Holme, Charles
New York: Dorset Press, 1990.
Lasting Impressions: The Grolier Club Library.
Holzenberg, Eric.
New York: The Grolier Club, 2005.
Designing Books: practice and theory
Hotchuli, Jost & Robin Kinross
London: Hyphen Press, 1996.
Detail in Typography
Hotchuli, Jost
London: Hyphen Press, 2008.
The Aesthetic World of Jan Van Krimpen
Hubregtse, Sjaak
The Hague: Museum of the Book, 1995..
A Century for the Century
Hunger, Martin & Jerry Kelly.
Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2004.
Letters
Hutchinson, James
New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983.
Twenty-two tips on typography / Twenty-two things your should never do with typefaces
Jardi, Enric
New York: Actar, 2007.
The Encyclopaedia of Type Faces
Jaspert, W. Pincus, W. Turner Berry & A.F. Johnson
Poole: Blandford Press, 1983.
French Sixteenth-Century Printing.
Johnson, A.F.
London: Earnst Benn, 1928.
Italian XVI Century Typography.
Johnson, A.F.
New York: Scribner's, 1926.
Selected Essays on Books and Printing.
Johnson, A.F.
New York: Abner Schram, 1970.
Alphabets to Order: The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Typefounders' Specimens
Johnston, Alastair
London: British Library, 2000.
Robert Granjon: Sixteenth Century Type Founder and Printer.
Jones, George W.
Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1931
A Destinguished Family of French Printers of the Sixteenth Centry, Henri & Robert Estienne.
Jones, George W.
Brooklyn: Mergenthaler Linotype Company, 1929
Jan Tschichold: Master Typographer, His Life, Work & Legacy
de Jong, Cees W., et al
London: Thames & Hudson, 2008.
Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles,
Volume 1
de Jong, Cees (ed.)
New York: Taschen, 2009.
Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles,
Volume 2
de Jong, Cees (ed.)
New York: Taschen, 2010.
Last Will and Testament of the Late Nicolas Jenson
Chicago: Ludlow Telegraph Company, 1928.
About Face: Reviving the rules of typography
Jury, David
Mies: Rotovision, 2004.
book art object
Jury, David, ed.
Berkeley: The Codex Foundation, 2008.
Letter Press: The allure of the handmade
Jury, David
Mies: Rotovision, 2004.
A Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1820-1853
Kelly, Jerry.
Ponoma, NY: Kelly-Winterton Press, 2004.
The First Flowering: Bruce Rogers at the Riverside Press, 1896-1912
Kelly, Jerry
Boston: The Club of Odd Volumes, 2008.
Giovanni and Martino Mardersteig: Book designers, typographers and printers in Verona.
Kelly, Jerry et al.
New York: Grolier Club, 2009.
Modern typography.
Kinross, Robin.
London: Hyphen Press, 1992.
Unjustified texts: perspectives on typography
Kinross, Robin
London: Hyphen Press, 2002.
Historical Scripts: From Classical Times to the Renaissance
Knight, Stan
New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1998.
Fritz Kredel: 1900-1973
Kredel Brown, Mathilde.
New York: The Grolier Club, 2000.
Jan van Krimpen: Tentoonstelling van zijn ontwerpen, letters en boeken
Krimpen, H. van
Antwerp: Meermanno, 1967.
Boek over het maken van boeken
Krimpen, H. van
Arnhem: Van Loghum Slaterus, 1966.
On Designing and Devising Type
Krimpen, Jan van.
New York: The Typophiles, 1957.
On the Mechanical Cutting of Punches
Krimpen, Jan van.
Boston: Godine, 1972.
A Perspective on Type and Typography
Krimpen, Jan van.
Lunenburg: The Stinehour Press, 1965.
Typography: Formation & TransFormation
Kunz, Willi
Zürich: Niggli, 2003.
Typography: Macro- & Micro-Aesthetics
Kunz, Willi
Zürich: Niggli, 2002.
Typography
Lacoue-Labarthe, Philippe
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989.
Humane Letters: Bruce Rogers, Designer of Books
Landon, Richard
Toronto: Thomas Fisher Rare Books Library (University of Toronto), 2007.
Early Type Specimens in the Plantin-Moretus Museum
Lane, John A.
London: British Library, 2004.
Proef van Letteren, Welke gegooten worden in de Nieuwe Haerlemsche Lettergietery van J. Enschede [facsimile from the 1768 edition].
Lane, John A.
Amsterdam, De Buitenkant, 1993.
Letterproeven van Nederlandse gieterijen | Dutch Typefounders' Specimens
Lane, John A. & Mathieu Lommen
Amsterdam, De Buitenkant, 1998.
Printing Digital Type on the hand-operated flatbed cylinder press
Lange, Gerald
Marina del Ray: Bieler Press Monographs, 2004.
Rudolph Ruzicka: Speaking Reminiscently
Lathem, Edward Connery
New York: The Grolier Club, 1986.
The Roman Inscriptional Letter
Lawrence, Sandra.
Portland: Graphic Arts Workshop at Reed College, 1955.
Anatomy of a Typeface
Lawson, Alexander
Boston: David R. Godine, 1999.
Typographical Printing Surfaces
Legros, Lucien Alphonse & John Cameron Grant.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1916.
BR Today: A Selection of His Books, With Comments.
Lerner, Abe., ed.
New York: The Grolier Club, 1982.
The Art & History of Books
Levarie, Norma.
New York: James H. Heineman, 1968.
Anatomy of Printing
Lewis, John
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1970.
Typography: basic principles
Lewis, John.
New York: Reinhold Publishing, 1964.
Jan van Krimpen:
1892-1958
Lommen, Mathieu, ed.
Rijksmusem Meermanno-Westreenianum, 1967.
Bookmaking: Editing/ Design/Production
Lee, Marshall
New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.
A Handbook of Printing Types with Notes on the Style of Composition and Graphic Processes Used by Cowells
Lewis, John N.C.
London: Faber & Faber, 1947.
A Handbook of Type and Illustration
Lewis, John
London: Faber & Faber, 1956.
ABC of Lettering and Printing Typefaces
Lindegren, Erik
New York: Greenwich House, 1982.
Bram de Does: Letterontwerper & Typograaf / Typographer & Type Designer
Lommen, Mathieu (ed)
Amsterdam: De Buitenkant Publishers, 2003.
Venetian Printing
Lowery, Martin
Herning, Denmark: Poul Kristensen, 1989.
Type: The Secret History of Letters
Loxley, Simon
New York: I.B. Taurus, 2004.
The Typographic Desk Reference
Lupton, Ellen
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 2009.
M & H Type Catalogue
San Francisco: M & H Type, 1994.
The American Printer: A Manual of Typography, Containing Practical Directions for Managing All Departments of a Pringing Office, as well as Complete Instructions for Apprentices
MacKellar, Thomas
Philadelphia: The MacKellar, Smiths & Jordan Co., 1889.
An A-Z of Type Designers
Macmillan, Neil
Yale University Press, 2006.
Bruce Rogers: American Typographer
Mansbridge, Georgia
New York: The Typophiles, 2007.
A Manual of Style
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947.
The Officina Bodoni: An Account of the Work of a Hand Press, 1923-1977.
Mardersteig, Giovanni
Ed. Hans Schmoller.
Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, 1980. Slipcased.
A Roman Inscription: On Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio
Maret, Russell.
New York: Russell Maret, 2010.
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