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A curated collection of Type Specimens, Lettering & Calligraphy books.
1768 The Writing Pen Felice Polanzani
1843 Alphabet Album J. Techener
1900 New Zanerian Alphabets Zanner
1902 Letters & lettering 200 examples Frank Chouteau Brown
1913 Art of Writting John Jenkins
1922 Elements of Lettering Frederic Goudy
1931 Studio Handbook Samuel Welo
1935 The Anatomy of Lettering Warren Chappell
1935 60 Alphabets Ben W Hunt
1941 Lettering of today Ben W Hunt
1946 100 alphabets publicitaires
1948 The 26 letters Oscar Ogg
1949 Album de Lettres Arti
1951 A basic guide to lettering Robert Buckley
1952 Alphabet and Elements of Lettering Frederic Goudy
1952 The Art of Hand Lettering. Its Mastery and Practice Helm Wotzkow
1953 Three classics of Italian calligraphy: Arrighi, Tagliente, Palatino Oscar Ogg
1954 101 Alphabets Ben W Hunt
1955 Lettering and alphabets. John Albert Cavanagh
1957 La Lettre
1957 Script Lettering Meijer
1976 Hand Lettering Today Abraham Switkin
1981 Letters slate cut David Kinderlev and Lidia Lopez Cardozo
1982 Lettercraft Jhon R Biggs
1983 Tips on type Bill Gray
1984 Lettering for Architects and Designers Martha Sutherland
1986 The calligraphy sourcebook Miriam Striblew
1986 Lettera 4 Armin Haab
Unknown Year
Not yet online
1949 The Book of Oz Cooper. Society of Typographic Arts. Chicago. (Recommended by Shinntype)
1949 The modification of letterforms Stanley Hess. (Recommended by Dunwichtype)
Let's grow the list together!
Send me your recomendations to impallari@gmail.com, use subject "Type Books".