Type Library: A gallery of type books...
Recent Aquisitions
Alphabetical by Author...
Symbols, Signs, Letters: About Handwriting, Experimenting with Alphabets, and the Interpretation of Texts
Andersch, Martin
New York: Design Press, 1989.
Printing & the Mind of Merker: A Bibliographical Study
Berger, Sidney E.
New York, The Grolier Club, 1997.
Catalogus van de Typographische Verzameling van Joh. Enschedé & Zonen
Haarlem, Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1916.
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.
Letterproeven van Nederlandse gieterijen | Dutch Typefounders’ Specimens
Lane, John A. & Mathieu Lommen
Amsterdam, De Buitenkant, 1998.
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.
American Proprietary Typefaces
Pankow, David, ed.
New York: American Printing History Association, 1998.
A Manual of Style
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947.
Simon de Colines: An Annotated Catalogue of 230 Examples of His Press, 1520-1546
Schreiber, Fred
Provo, Utah: Friends of the Brigham Young University Library, 1995.
American Book Design and William Morris
Thompson, Susan Otis
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1977.
The Book of Fine Paper
Turner, Silvie
New York: Thames & Hudson, 1998.
Not So Recent Acquisitions...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 House of Enschedé: 1703-1953
Carter, Harry & Jan van Krimpen.
Harlaam: Enschedé, 1953.
A View of Early Typography: Up to About 1600
Carter, Harry
London: Hyphen Press, 2002.
The Private Press
Cave, Roderick.
New York: R.R. Bowker, 1983. 2nd ed.
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 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.
Pietro Bembo: 'Foster Father of the Modern Book'
Danforth, Ted
New York: Typophiles, 2003.
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.
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 Work of Jan van Krimpen: An Illustrated Record
Dreyfus, John
Lonson: Sylvan Press, 1952.
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.
Adieu Aesthetica & Mooie Pagina's!
Museum van het Boet, Uitgeverij de Buitenkant, Museum Enschedé, 1995.
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.
In Praise of Aldus Manutius
Fletcher, H. George
New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library, 1995.
The Private Presses
Franklin, Colin
Chester Springs, PA: Dufour Editions, 1969.
An Essay on Typography
Gill, Eric
Boston: David R. Godine, 1988.
Autobiography
Gill, Eric
New York: The Devin-Adair Company, 1945.
Goudy's Type Designs [Complete]
Goudy, Frederic W.
New Rochelle: The Myriade Press (for the Typohiles), 1978.
Types and Type Design
Goudy, Frederic W.
Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1936.
Typologia
Goudy, Frederic W.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1977.
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.
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.
The Art of the Book
Holme, Charles
New York: Dorset Press, 1990.
Designing Books: practice and theory
Hochuli, 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.
Jan Tschichold: Master Typographer, His Life, Work & Legacy
de Jong, Cees W., et al
London: Thames & Hudson, 2008.
Last Will and Testament of the Late Nicolas Jenson
Chicago: Ludlow Telegraph Company, 1928.
Italian XVI Century Typography
Johnson, A.F.
New York: Scribner's, 1926.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Art & History of Books
Levarie, Norma.
New York: James H. Heineman, 1968.
Anatomy of Printing
Lewis, John
New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1970.
Jan van Krimpen:
1892-1958
Lommen, Mathieu, ed.
Rijksmusem Meermanno-Westreenianum, 1967.
The Book: The Story of Printing & Bookmaking
McMurtrie, Douglas C.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1965 (3rd ed., 8th printing).
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.
The Officina Bodoni: An Account of the Work of a Hand Press, 1923-1977.
Mardersteig, Giovanni
Ed. Hans Schmoller.
Verona: Edizioni Valdonega, 1980. Slipcased.
Stanley Morison & D.B. Updike: Selected Correspondence
McKitterick, David, ed.
New York: The Moretus Press, 1979.
A.T.A Type Comparison Book
Merriman, Frank
[?]: Advertising Typographers Association, 1965.
Fleuron Anthology
Maynell, Francis & Herbert Simon
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973.
American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century
McGrew, Mac.
2nd ed. New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1993.
An Introduction to Bibliography
McKerrow, Ronald B.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1967.
Typographers on Type
McLean, Ruari, ed.
New York: Norton, 1995.
Dutch Type
Middendorp, Jan
Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 2004.
Book Typography: A Designer's Manual
Mitchell, Michael and Susan Wightman
Marlborough: Libanus Press, 2005.
Early Italian Writing-Books: Renaissance to Baroque
Morison, Stanley.
Ed. Nicolas Barker.
London: The British Library, 1990.
The Fell Types.
(Morison, Stanley.)
Oxford University Press, 1950.
First Principles of Typography
Morison, Stanley.
Balkema, 1946.
Grondbeginselen van de Typografie (First Principles of Typography)
Morison, Stanley.
Trans. Jan van Krimpen.
Utrecht: Uitgeversmaatschappij W. de Haan N.V.1951.
On Type Designs Past and Present
Morison, Stanley.
London: Ernest Benn, 1962.
A Tally of Types
Morison, Stanley
Boston: David R. Godine, 1999 (1973).
Type Designs of the Past and Present
Morison, Stanley
London: The Fleuron, 1926.
The Typographic Arts: Two Lectures
Morison, Stanley.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1950.
The Typographic Book: 1450-1935 - A Study of Fine Typography Through Five Centuries
Morison, Stanley
& Kenneth Day.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.
Letter Forms: Typographic and Scriptorial: Two Essays on Their Classification, History and Bibliography
Morison, Stanley
New York: The Typophiles, 1968.
Politics and Script
Morison, Stanley
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
A Tally of Types
Morison, Stanley
London: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
Stanley Morison: His Typographic Achievement
Moran, James
London: Lund Humphries, 1971.
The Printer & the Pardoner
Needham, Paul
Washington: Library of Congress, 1986.
Letterletter
Noordzij, Gerrit
Vancouver: Hartley & Marks, 2000.
The 26 Letters
Ogg, Oscar
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1961.
The Book in Italy During the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Orcutt, William Dana
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1928. (#285)
The Art of the Type Specimen in the Twentieth Century
Pankow, David
New York: International Typeface Corporation, 1993.
The Trained Printer and the Amateur
Pollard, Alfred W.
Designed by Jan van Krimpen.
Utrecht: Stichting De Roos, 1950.
The Trained Printer and the Amateur
Pollard, Alfred W.
Specimen of the Centaur Types, designed by Bruce Rogers.
London: Lanston Monotype Corp., 1929.
Calligraphic Type Design in the Digital Age
Prestianni, John
San Francisco: GInko Press, 2001.
Type & Typography: Highlights from the Matrix, the Review for Printers and Bibliophiles
Randle, John
West New York: Mark Batty Publishing, 2003.
Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter
Re, Margaret
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2003.
Practical Typecasting
Rehak, Theo
New Castle: Oak Knoll Books, 1993.
The Aliquando Century
Reuter, William.
Dundas, ON: Aliquando Press, 2008.
Leaves from the Pie Tree
Rimmer, Jim.
Kentville, NS: Gaspereau Press, 2008.
The Centaur Types
Rogers, Bruce
Chicago: October House, 1949 (original 1949 letterpressed pages bound and released by Purdue University Press).
Paragraphs on Printing: Elicited from Bruce Rogers in Talks with James Hendrickson on the Functions of the Book Designer
Rogers, Bruce
New York: William E. Rudge's Sons, 1943.
Pi a Hodge Podge of the Letters, Papers, and Addresses Written During the Last 60 Years (& prospectus)
Rogers, Bruce
New York: The World Publishing Company, 1953.
Printing on the Iron Handpress
Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel
London: Oak Knoll & The British Library, 1998.
The Case for Legibility
Ryder, John
New York: The Moretus Press, 1979.
Lines of the Alphabet in the Sixteenth Century
Ryder, John.
London: The Stellar Press / The Bodley Head, 1965.
Printing for Pleasure
Ryder, John
Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1977.
Introduction to Typography
Simon, Oliver
London: Curwen Press / Penquin, 1954.
The Origin of Type Designs
Standish, John K., et al.
Portland: Portland Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1955.
Janson: A Definitive Collection (Specimen)
Stauffacher, Jack Werner.
San Francisco: The Greenwood Press, 1954.
An Atlas of Typeforms
Sutton, James and Alan Bartram.
Hartfordshire: Wordsorth Editions, 1968.
From Hand to Hand: A Gathering of Book Arts in British Columbia
Tayler, Anne H. & Megan J. Nelson
Vancouver: The Alcuin Society, 1986.
The Doves Press
Tidcombe, Marianne.
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2002.
Letters of Credit
Tracy, Walter
Boston: David R. Godine, 1986.
The Typographic Scene
Tracy, Walter.
London: Gordon Fraser, 1988.
The Form of the Book: Essays on the Morality of Good Design
Tschichold, Jan
Vancouver: Hartley & Marks, 1991.
Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering
Tschichold, Jan
New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.
Theory and Practice of Presswork
United States Government Printing Office
Washington, DC, 1948.
Type for Books: A Designer's Manual
London: Bodley Head (for Mackay's), 1976. 3rd ed.
Typography Papers 6
Ed. Paul Stiff. (With essays on the 15th-century revival of the Roman alphabet by Nicolette Gray, Giovanni Mardersteig, Paul Stiff, and James Mosley.)
London: Hyphen Press, 2005.
Printing Types: Their History, Forms, and Use
Updike, D.B.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1937.
Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use
Updike, Daniel Berkeley
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1966.
The Well-Made Book
Updike, Daniel Berkeley
New York: Mark Batty, 2002.
Luminario, or the Third Chapter of the Liber Elementorum Litterarum on the Construction of Roman Capitals
Verini, Giovam Baptista.
Harvard College Library, 1947.
The Crystal Goblet: Sixteen Essays on Typography
Warde, Beatrice.
London: Sylvan Press, 1955.
A Brief History of Printing
Walker, Emery
L.C.C. Central School of Arts and Crafts, 1911.
Bruce Rogers: Designer of Books
Warde, Frederic
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1925.
A Memoir of the Origin of Printing
Willet, Ralph
Forest Hills, NY: Battery Park Book Company, 1978.
Methods of Book Design
Williamson, Hugh
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
The Design of Books
Wilson, Adrian
New York: Reinhold Publishing, 1967.
Gutenberg to Plantin: An Outline of The Early History of Printing
Winship, George Parker
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1926.
Alphabet Stories: A Chronicle of Technical Developments
Zapf, Herman
Rochester: Cary Graphic Arts Press, 2008.
The Fine Art of Letters: The Work of Herman Zapff
Zapff, Herman & Jerry Kelly.
New York: The Grolier Club, 2000.
