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Books recommended by Jeremiah Shoaf

Jeremiah Shoaf recommends 20 books, among them A Type Primer, A–Z of Letterpress and An Essay on Typography.

A Type Primer

John Kane

Design

A–Z of Letterpress

Alan Kitching

Design

An Essay on Typography

Eric Gill

Design

Designing with Type

James Craig & Irene Korol Scala

Design

Encyclopaedia of Typefaces

W. Pincus Jaspert et al.

Design

Just My Type

Simon Garfield

Design

Shaping Text

Jan Middendorp

Design

Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works

Erik Spiekermann & E.M. Ginger

Arts & entertainment

The Anatomy of Type

Stephen Coles

Design

The Complete Manual of Typography

James Felici

Design

The Designer’s Dictionary of Type

Sean Adams

Design

The Elements of Typographic Style

Robert Bringhurst

Arts & entertainment

The Evolution of Type

Tony Seddon

Design

The New Typography

Jan Tschichold

Arts & entertainment

20th-Century Type

Lewis Blackwell

Design

Type

Cees W. de Jong, Alston W. Purvis & Jan Tholenaar

Design

Type on Screen

Ellen Lupton

Design

Typographie

Emil Ruder

Design

Typography Essentials

Ina Saltz

Design

Weingart: Typography

Wolfgang Weingart

Design