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Vendor:Thames & Hudson
Free Hand: New Typography Sketchbooks
Steven Heller & Lita Talarico Softcover | 18.5 x 24.5 cm | 352 pp Thames and Hudson | 2018 | 9780500294277 This tour through leading graphic designers’ personal sketchbooks reveals the creative processes behind the creation of typefaces, word-images and logos. Arranged alphabetically by name, the world’s most...- £12.00
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Vendor:Black Dog Publishing
The Essential Type Directory: A Sourcebook of Over 1,800 Typefaces and Their Histories
Peter Dawson & Tobias Frere-Jones Hardcover | 22.5 x 5 x 24 cm | 672 pp Black Dog Press | 2019 | 9780762468171 The Essential Type Directory offers 1,800 examples of the best in type design, spanning almost 600 years of design history. From classics...- £25.00
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Vendor:HOW Books
Type Teams: Perfect Typeface Combinations and Why They Work
Tony Seddon Softcover | 228 x 187 x 17 mm | 224 pp HOW Books | 2015 | 9781440335211 The suggested type combinations illustrated throughout this book are designed to provide the information and inspiration you need to make the best choices you can when bringing...- £8.00
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Vendor:Laurence King
A2Z+ : Alphabets & Signs
Julian Rothenstein & Mel Gooding Softcover | 29.6 x 3.6 x 21.3 cm | 320 pp | 350 illustrations Laurence King | 2018 | 9781786271846 The original A2Z presented an astonishing array of alphabets, emblems, letters and signs with stunning graphics drawn from classic modernist publications and obscure...- £15.00
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Vendor:Batsford
New Illustration with Type
Martin Dawber Softcover | 22.23 x 1.27 x 27.31 cm | 176 pp Batsford | 2010 | 9781906388614 This book showcases over 35 artists and designers from around the world - from South America to Japan, Spain to Australia - producing a rich resource for...- £12.00
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Vendor:Laurence King
The Little Book of Typographic Ornament
David Jury Hardcover | 16.5 x 3.2 x 21.3 cm | 240 pp | 700 illustrations Laurence King | 2015 | 9781780675893 This little book contains a beautiful and varied collection of typographic ornaments sourced from specimen books of type foundries, dating from 1700. David Jury...- £12.00
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Vendor:Yale University Press
Type Tells Tales
Steven Heller & Gail Anderson Softcover | 33.8 x 2 x 24.1 cm | 224 pp | 332 illustrations, 290 in colour Yale University Press | 2017 | 9780300226799 A fresh look at typographic design as an art and as a storytelling device that expresses narratives, emotions,...- £15.00
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Vendor:Unicorn Press
A-Z of Typography: Classification, Anatomy, Toolkit & Attributes
Wilks & Wyse Hardcover | 14.61 x 2.79 x 19.69 cm | 272 pp Unicorn Press | 2017 | 9781910787922 This highly visual introduction to all things typographic unravels the story of the fonts that we encounter every day. It opens with an A-Z...- £8.00
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Vendor:Victionary
The Typefaces: Scott Lambert
Scott Lambert Hardcvover | 23 x 0.5 x 32 cm | 42 pp Victionary | 2019 | 9789887903406 Inspired by letterpress printing and childlike observations, The Typefaces are simply faces in type. Initially self-published by creative director and graphic designer Scott Lambert in 2015, the book...- £5.00
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Vendor:Monacelli Press
Marian Bantjes: I Wonder
Softcover | 16 x 3.81 x 24.26 cm | 224 pp Monacelli Press | 2018 | 9781580935197 From typographic illustrator Marian Bantjes, I Wonder offers new ways of thinking about art, design, beauty, and popular culture through elaborately crafted word pictures. Whether intricately hand-drawn...- £15.00
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Vendor:Laurence King
Twentieth Century Type and Beyond
Lewis Blackwell Softcover | 17.8 x 1.9 x 22.9 cm | 216 pp Laurence King | 2013 | 9781780671154 This substantially revised edition of Lewis Blackwell’s classic study provides an up-to-date, decade-by-decade analysis of the issues that have shaped the history and development of typographic design....- £7.00
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A Selection of Fifty Type Specimens: from the collection of Tobias Frere-Jones
11.11 x 3.81 x 15.88 cm | 50 boxed cards Princeton Architectural Press | 2017 | 9781616896447 Linen covered box typeset in Mallory and Union Gothic Fifty Type Specimens is a collection of postcards with stunning images of typography, for inspiration, correspondence, or display. The...- £12.50
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Vendor:The History Press
Fading London: The City's Vanishing Ghost Signs
Helen Cox Hardcover | 19.3 x 1.52 x 23.5 cm | 128 pp The History Press | 2019 | 9780750992596 This is a photographic journey into London’s often overlooked advertising history exploring how the capital’s businesses of old made use of hand-painted signs to inform,...- £10.00
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Vendor:MIT Press
The Typographic Medium
Kate Brideau Hardcover | 16 x 2.18 x 23.37 cm | 432 pp MIT Press | 2021 | 9780262045858 Typography is everywhere and yet widely overlooked. When we read type, we fail to see type. In this book, Kate Brideau considers typography not as part...- £15.00
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Vendor:Rizzoli
Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, &C.: The 1874 Masterpiece of Colorful Typography
Steven Heller & Esther K Smith Hardcover | 25.91 x 1.52 x 33.78 cm | 120 pp Rizzoli | 2017 | 9780847858682 Specimens of Chromatic Wood Type, Borders, &c. is a reproduction of a vintage volume with an established cult status within the bibliophile,...- £20.00
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William Addison Dwiggins: Stencilled Ornament and Illustration (Expanded Edition)
Hardcover | 17.78 x 1.27 x 26.04 cm | 112 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2015 | 9781616893750 This is a survey of work by one of the greatest book designers of all time, William Addison Dwiggins (1880-1955). The book illustrates Dwiggins's step-by-step method...- £10.00
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Vendor:International Typefounders
International Typefounders Catalogue: Volume Two
Hardcover | 23.5 x 1.7 x 23.2 cm | 210 pp International Typefounders | 1998 Published in 1998, this is the second catalogue from International Typefounders - a coalition of fifty independent world-renowned type foundries and designers. The book features hundreds of type faces...- £10.00
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Vendor:HQ
Snails and Monkey Tails: A Visual Guide to Punctuation & Symbols
Michael Arndt Hardcover | 17.1 x 1.8 x 17.1 cm | 160 pp HQ | 2022 | 9780008530204 What is the purpose of the comma – perhaps the most used symbol in the English language – and what are the proper uses of the asterisk?...- £5.00
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Vendor:Monacelli Press
Lettering Large: The Art and Design of Monumental Typography
Steven Heller & Mirko Illic Hardcover | 23.81 x 2.54 x 28.26 cm | 224 pp Monacelli Press | 2013 | 9781580933599 Typography has jumped off the printed page to stand on its own as branding, sculpture, and even architecture. Lettering Large examines this phenomenon...- £20.00
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Vendor:Yale University Press
Jan Tschichold and the New Typography: Graphic Design Between the World Wars
Paul Stirton Softcover | 17.78 x 3.18 x 22.86 cm | 272 pp Yale University Press | 2019 | 9780300243956 Richly illustrated with images from Jan Tschichold’s little-known private collection of design ephemera, this important book explores a legendary figure in the history of modern...- £17.50
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