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17 Aug 2011 — 2:35pm
17 Aug 2011 — 2:35pm
Albrecht Dürer - On the Just Shaping of Letters (English translation)
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10 Nov 2011 — 11:06am
Strunk - The Elements of Style
Saunders - The Author’s Printing and Publishing Assistant
17 Feb 2012 — 7:57am
Henry R. Plomer – A Short History of English Printing
22 Feb 2012 — 3:31am
Bib-li-op-e-gis-tic (Pertaining to the art of binding books.—Dibdin) by anon.
29 Feb 2012 — 3:17pm
Thanks so much for posting these! I'll be adding many of them to my collection.
2 Mar 2012 — 1:49pm
So far as I know, Project Gutenberg has republished these books from UTA's Typographic Technical Series:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36372 – #1: Type
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31704 – #3: Type Cases and Composing-Room Furniture
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30036 – #32: Word Study and English Grammar
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20787 – #33: Punctuation
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20374 – #34: Capitals
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17016 – #35: Division of Words
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30847 – #36: Compound Words
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33828 – #37: Abbreviations and Signs
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24829 – #38: The Uses of Italic
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30804 – #43: Applied Design for Printers
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30803 – #49: Books Before Typography
1 Apr 2012 — 4:22pm
Practical Bookbinding by Paul Adam, just in case it interests someone.
12 May 2012 — 7:44am
How to Make an Index by Henry B. Wheatley.
12 May 2012 — 10:09am
Hmmm, kind of odd and annoying that they wouldn't offer a pdf version for download. However there is this free online epub to pdf converter:
http://www.epub-to-pdf.com/
12 May 2012 — 10:13am
A textbook on lettering and sign painting
18 Jun 2012 — 5:30pm
Monograms and Ciphers by Albert Angus Turbayne
Royal English Bookbindings by Cyril James Humphries Davenport
17 Jul 2012 — 9:21am
Of the Decorative Illustration of Books Old and New by Walter Crane (third edition)
6 Aug 2012 — 8:50am
Lessons in the Art of Illuminating by William John Loftie.
23 Sep 2012 — 3:19pm
Shakspere and Typography by William Blades
1 Oct 2012 — 8:40am
http://typophile.com/node/72768
3 Oct 2012 — 7:18am
The Invention of Lithography by Alois Senefelder (English translation by J.W. Muller)