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-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label typebooks</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Books on Type</h3>
-<p/> The following is a partial listing of books on typography in general.
-Of these, Bringhurst seems to be the one most often recommended.
-<dl>
-<dt>The Elements of Typographic Style<dd>by Robert Bringhurst
- (Hartley &#38; Marks, 1992, ISBN 0-88179-033-8)
-<dt>Finer Points in the Spacing &#38; Arrangement of Type<dd>by Geoffrey Dowding
- (Hartley &#38; Marks, 1996, ISBN 0-88179-119-9)
-<dt>The Thames &#38; Hudson Manual of Typography<dd>by Ruari McLean
- (Thames &#38; Hudson, 1980, ISBN 0-500-68022-1)
-<dt>The Form of the Book<dd>by Jan Tschichold
- (Lund Humphries, 1991, ISBN 0-85331-623-6)
-<dt>Type &#38; Layout<dd>by Colin Wheildon
- (Strathmore Press, 2006, ISBN 1-875750-22-3)
-<dt>The Design of Books<dd>by Adrian Wilson
- (Chronicle Books, 1993, ISBN 0-8118-0304-X)
-<dt>Optical Letter Spacing<dd>by David Kindersley and Lida Cardozo Kindersley
-
- (<a href="http://www.kindersleyworkshop.co.uk/">The Cardozo Kindersley Workshop</a>
- 2001, ISBN 1-874426-139)
-</dl>
-<p/> There are many catalogues of type specimens but the following books provide
-a more interesting overall view of types in general and some of their history.
-<dl>
-<dt>Alphabets Old &#38; New<dd>by Lewis F. Day
- (Senate, 1995, ISBN 1-85958-160-9)
-<dt>An Introduction to the History of Printing Types<dd>by Geoffrey Dowding
- (British Library, 1998, UK ISBN 0-7123-4563-9; USA ISBN 1-884718-44-2)
-<dt>The Alphabet Abecedarium<dd>by Richard A. Firmage
- (David R. Godine, 1993, ISBN 0-87923-998-0)
-<dt>The Alphabet and Elements of Lettering<dd>by Frederick Goudy
- (Dover, 1963, ISBN 0-486-20792-7)
-<dt>Anatomy of a Typeface<dd>by Alexander Lawson
- (David R. Godine, 1990, ISBN 0-87923-338-8)
-<dt>A Tally of Types<dd>by Stanley Morison
- (David R. Godine, 1999, ISBN 1-56792-004-7)
-<dt>Counterpunch<dd>by Fred Smeijers
- (Hyphen, 1996, ISBN 0-907259-06-5)
-<dt>Treasury of Alphabets and Lettering<dd>by Jan Tschichold
- (W. W. Norton, 1992, ISBN 0-393-70197-2)
-<dt>A Short History of the Printed Word<dd>by Warren Chappell and
- Robert Bringhurst (Hartley &#38; Marks, 1999, ISBN 0-88179-154-7)
-</dl>
-<p/> The above lists are limited to books published in English. Typographic
-styles are somewhat language-dependent, and similarly the &#8216;interesting&#8217; fonts
-depend on the particular writing system involved.
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=typebooks">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=typebooks</a>
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