Reference: Recommended Books on Typography
19th Century Type
Blackletter Type
Book Design
History of the Alphabet
American Wood Type, 1828-1900
by Rob Roy Kelly
Pub: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0-3068-0059-4

19th Century Ornamented Type Faces
by Nicolete Gray
Pub: University of California Press, Berkeley
ISBN: 0-520-03074-5
Blackletter: Type and National Identity
by Paul Shaw & Peter Bain
Pub: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1-56898-125-2
Designing Books: Practice and Theory
by Jost Hochuli & Robin Kinross
Pub: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 0-907259-08-1
Alphabet Abecedarium, The: Some Notes on Lettering
by Richard A. Firmage
Pub: David R. Godine
ISBN: 0-87923-987-5

Alphabetic Labyrinth, The: The Letters in History and Imagination
by Johanna Drucker
Pub: Thames and Hudson
ISBN: 0-500-01608-9
Important Typographers
Intermediate Typography
Introduction to Typography
Multilingual typograhy
Typography: Reflections on the Origins of My Typographic Work in Ten Chapters
by Wolfgang Weingart
Pub: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 3-907044-86-X

Tschichold, Jan: A Life in Typography
by Ruari McLean
Pub: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1-56898-084-1

The Work of Jan van Krimpen
by John Dreyfus
Pub: Hartley & Marks
ISBN: 0-88179-112-1

Typographically Speaking
by Margaret Re, Johanna Drucker, James Mosley
Pub: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 1568984278
Elements of Typographic Style, The
by Robert Bringhurst
Pub: Hartley & Marks
ISBN: 0-88179-132-6

Finer Points in the Spacing & Arrangement of Type
by Geoffrey Dowding
Pub: Hartley & Marks Publishers
ISBN: 0-88179-119-9

Typography: Macro- + Microaesthetics
by Willi Kunz
Pub: Verlag Niggli AG
ISBN: 3-7212-0348-8

The Complete Manual of Typography
by James Felici
Pub: Adobe Press
ISBN: 0321127307

About Face: Reviving the Rules of Typography
by David Jury
Pub: Rotovision
ISBN: 2880466776
Stop Stealing Sheep & find out how type works
byErik Spiekermann & E.M. Ginger
Pub: Adobe Press
ISBN: 0-672-48543-5

Design With Type
by Carl Dair
Pub: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 0-8020-6519-8

Designing With Type: A Basic Course in Typography
by James Craig, William Bevington & Susan E. Meyer
Pub: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0-8230-1347-2

Typographic Design: Form and Communication
by Rob Carter, Ben Day, Philip B. Meggs
Pub: Van Nostrand Reinhold
ISBN: 0-442-00759-0

Type & Typography
by Phil Baines, Andrew Haslam
Pub: Watson-Guptill
ISBN: 0823055248

A Type Primer
by John Kane
Pub: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 013099071X
Language Culture Type:
International Type Design in the Age of Unicode

by John D. Berry
Pub: Graphis Pr
ISBN: 1932026010
Type Specimen Books
Typeface Design
Typographic History
American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century
by Mac McGrew
Pub: Oak Knoll Press
ISBN: 0-938768-39-5

FontBook: Digital Typeface Compendium
by Erik Spiekermann, Jürgen Siebert & Mai-Linh Thi Truong
Pub: FontShop International
ISBN: 3-930023-02-4

American Type Founders Specimen Book and Catalog 1923
Pub: American Type Founders Company
ISBN: None

Type Foundries of America & their catalogs
by Maurice Annenberg
Pub: Oak Knoll Press
ISBN: 1-884718-06-X
Letters of Credit: A View of Type Design
Author: Walter Tracy
Pub: David R. Godine
ISBN: 0-87923-636-1

Counterpunch: Making Type in the Sixteenth Century, Designing Typefaces Now
by Fred Smeijers
Pub: Hyphen Press
ISBN: 0-9072-5906-5
History of Graphic Design, A
by Phillip B. Meggs
Pub: Van Nostrand Reinhold
ISBN: 0-442-31895-2

Modern Typography: An Essay in Critical History
by Robin Kinross
Pub: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 0-907259-05-7

Typography: An Encyclopedic Survey of Type Design and Techniques
Throughout History

by Friedrich Friedl, Nicolau Ott , Bernard Stein
Pub: Black Dog & Leventhal
ISBN: 1579120237