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9781584562986, titled "Historical Types: From Gutenberg to Ashendene" | Oak Knoll Pr, September 15, 2012, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: Featuring a curated collection of about 500 exquisite designs, along with essays from top designers about the essence and importance of good typography in design, Design: Type is an insightful resource filled with mini-workshops that dissect several featured projects and highlight the effectiveness of the type treatments...read more
By Tony Seddon (editor)

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9781592537983, titled "Design: Type: A Seductive Collection of Alluring Type Designs" | Rockport Pub, September 1, 2012, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Featuring a curated collection of about 500 exquisite designs, along with essays from top designers about the essence and importance of good typography in design, Design: Type is an insightful resource filled with mini-workshops that dissect several featured projects and highlight the effectiveness of the type treatments.

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Product Description: In 1922 the Cooper Black typeface entered the world and turned a word into a gesture just by its looks: the undeniable poker face of all typefaces. Cooper Black is a survivor; it outlived World War II, the first step on the moon, hurricanes, and storefronts...read more

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9789063692636 | Bis Pub, March 6, 2012, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: In 1922 the Cooper Black typeface entered the world and turned a word into a gesture just by its looks: the undeniable poker face of all typefaces.

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By Adobe Systems (corporate author)

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9780321821256 | 4th edition (Adobe Pr, December 15, 2011), cover price $44.99

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9783836525091 | Taschen America Llc, June 19, 2011, cover price $69.99

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9783836554534, titled "Letter Fountain (On Printing Types)" | Taschen America Llc, May 8, 2015, cover price $39.99

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9783836515146, titled "Type: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles 1901-1938" | Mul edition (Taschen America Llc, March 30, 2010), cover price $59.99

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9783836544801 | Slp mul edition (Taschen America Llc, September 15, 2013), cover price $59.99

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Product Description: This book offers a novel overview of typeface design, exploring the most beautiful and remarkable examples of font catalogs from the history of publishing, with a special emphasis on the period from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, when color catalogs were at their height...read more

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9783836511018 | Taschen America Llc, August 1, 2009, cover price $59.99 | About this edition: This book offers a novel overview of typeface design, exploring the most beautiful and remarkable examples of font catalogs from the history of publishing, with a special emphasis on the period from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, when color catalogs were at their height.

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Product Description: If there is one experience that any graphic designer can relate to, it's the quest for the perfect typeface. The right typeface communicates the visual essence of the content while enhancing the impact of the overall design. The dozens of type samplers available are often more confusing than helpful, offering hundreds of choices but little guidance...read more

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9781568988108 | 1 edition (Princeton Architectural Pr, July 1, 2009), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: If there is one experience that any graphic designer can relate to, it's the quest for the perfect typeface.

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Product Description: This is a recipe book of twenty-two tips in creating the best typography and twenty-two things you should never do with lettering. Secrets which many designers will never reveal. In an era of typographic fundamentalism and the cult of forms, this list of dos and don'ts explodes myths and provides a fresh view of typography...read more

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9788496540927 | Actar Editorial, January 30, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: This is a recipe book of twenty-two tips in creating the best typography and twenty-two things you should never do with lettering.

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9780321544728 | 3 edition (Adobe Pr, December 13, 2007), cover price $44.99

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9781568986265 | Princeton Architectural Pr, August 30, 2007, cover price $35.00

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A successor to 'An Atlas of Typeforms', this title includes nearly 75 different types typography in their original metal forms. By including photographs of architectural and vernacular forms of lettering, it explores the correlation between the printed letterform and its parallel form in sculpture, engraving and other public spaces.

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9780712309714 | Ill edition (British Library Board, October 31, 2007), cover price $40.85 | About this edition: A successor to 'An Atlas of Typeforms', this title includes nearly 75 different types typography in their original metal forms.
9781584562221 | Oak Knoll Pr, January 31, 2007, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: First edition.

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Product Description: With its attractive contemporary styling and unbeatable price, this invaluable guide to more than 10,000 fonts and computer typefaces is an essential purchase for graphic designers. The world of type has undergone massive changes in the past few years, allowing designers to order, pay for, and download a font in just a few minutes; the challenge is to select the right type beforehand, and that's where this huge encyclopedia is a boon...read more

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9781844032068 | Cassell, December 28, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: With its attractive contemporary styling and unbeatable price, this invaluable guide to more than 10,000 fonts and computer typefaces is an essential purchase for graphic designers.

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Accessible and easy to use, this handy reference book gives a detailed visual record of the evolution of typefaces over the last century, focusing in particular on developments in the last fifteen years.

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9780500512296 | Thames & Hudson, September 1, 2005, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Accessible and easy to use, this handy reference book gives a detailed visual record of the evolution of typefaces over the last century, focusing in particular on developments in the last fifteen years.

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This study of typography traces the development of type design over the past five centuries, and discusses the lessons they hold for today's designers. The 367 illustrations reproduce selected pages from rare and beautiful books. The accompanying text examines the historical and artistic significance of these specimens, which represent the best work of printers and type founders from Gutenberg to Bruce Rogers. The two original books are here reproduced in one huge volume of over 1000 pages. This work should belong in the library of a typographer or those interested in printing history. (view table of contents)

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9781584560562 | Oak Knoll Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $85.00
9780712347341 | 4th edition (British Library Board, June 1, 2001), cover price $55.01 | About this edition: This study of typography traces the development of type design over the past five centuries, and discusses the lessons they hold for today's designers.

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9781584560609, titled "Printing Types, Their History Forms And Use" | 3 reprint edition (Oak Knoll Pr, June 1, 2001), cover price $49.95

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Product Description: Volume 1 covers 369 of the most popular and interesting uppercase, upright fonts in use. It illustrates sans serif, serif, and condensed letterforms. Letters are shown in charts, and arranged in accordance with variations in their shape.

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9781552125939 | Trafford on Demand Pub, February 1, 2001, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Volume 1 covers 369 of the most popular and interesting uppercase, upright fonts in use.

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Product Description: Volume 2 covers 371 of the most popular and interesting uppercase fonts in use. It illustrates decorative/design/display, script and blackletter/uncial letterforms. Letters are charted and arranged in accordance with variations in shape.

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9781552125946 | Trafford on Demand Pub, February 1, 2001, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: Volume 2 covers 371 of the most popular and interesting uppercase fonts in use.

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Product Description: Name This Font - A Practical Encyclopedia of Letterforms is intended for use by all who work with text and letters - graphic designers, computer artists, copywriters, printers, typesetters. Name This Font is an invaluable new tool that eliminates the tiresome and frustrating search for a font name through hundreds of pages of font catalogs...read more

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9781552125953 | Trafford on Demand Pub, February 1, 2001, cover price $98.00 | About this edition: Name This Font - A Practical Encyclopedia of Letterforms is intended for use by all who work with text and letters - graphic designers, computer artists, copywriters, printers, typesetters.

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Product Description: Taking its name from a distinctive and unconventional style of music and fashion, this innovative collection by typographer Dan X. Solo offers graphic artists a remarkable source of striking typefaces. One hundred offbeat, eye-catching alphabets include playful Fingerpaint, angular Desert Rat, whimsical Crazy Eights, Ninja, Hardscrabble, Everglades, Double Take, Bushman, Bramble, Aspodistra, and dozens more...read more
By Dan X. Solo (editor) and Solotype Typographers (corporate author)

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9780486402826 | Dover Pubns, April 21, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Taking its name from a distinctive and unconventional style of music and fashion, this innovative collection by typographer Dan X.

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Product Description: This typeface collection combines the elegance of calligraphic lettering with remarkable ease of use, making it an ideal resource for artists, illustrators, and anyone in need of distinctive graphics. Choose from 100 carefully selected fonts―ranging from such classic styles as Mainz Gothic and Certificatext to the distinctive modern motifs of Bosworth, Accord, and Zebra...read more
By Dan X. Solo (editor) and Solotype Typographers (corporate author)

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9780486297989 | Dover Pubns, July 10, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: This typeface collection combines the elegance of calligraphic lettering with remarkable ease of use, making it an ideal resource for artists, illustrators, and anyone in need of distinctive graphics.

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By Dan X. Solo (editor) and Solotype Typographers (corporate author)

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9780486293325 | Dover Pubns, December 3, 1996, cover price $11.95

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Product Description: Add instant interest to any graphic project with bold, immediately usable fonts, including Rocky Horror, Snowcone, Ubaldo, Roughneck, Old Cafe, Clotilde, Humboldt, Marker Magic, and dozens more. All typefaces include uppercase alphabets; many contain punctuation marks, lowercase letters, and numerals...read more
By Dan X. Solo (editor) and Solotype Typographers (corporate author)

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9780486289762 | Dover Pubns, April 5, 1996, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Add instant interest to any graphic project with bold, immediately usable fonts, including Rocky Horror, Snowcone, Ubaldo, Roughneck, Old Cafe, Clotilde, Humboldt, Marker Magic, and dozens more.

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