Type and type-founding -- History
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Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use (digital edition, based on the 1922 and 1937 editions with links to digital copies of cited editions; 2025), by Daniel Berkeley Updike, ed. by Nicholas Rougeux (illustrated HTML at c82.net)- Hunt Roman: The Birth of a Type, by Hermann Zapf and Jack Werner Stauffacher (page images at CMU)
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Filed under: Type and type-founding- A Constructed Roman Alphabet: A Geometric Analysis of the Roman Alphabet, Including the Greek Characters and the Arabic Numerals, by David Lance Goines (illustrated HTML at goines.net)
- The METAFONTbook, by Donald Ervin Knuth (TeX and CTAN)
- The Typographic Treasures in Europe, and a Study of Contemporaneous Book Production in Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Holland and Belgium (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925), by Edward Everett Bartlett, contrib. by J. W. Muller
- U&lc: Upper and Lower Case, The International Journal of Typographics (New York: International Typeface Corp., 1973-) (partial serial archives)
- Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use (digital edition, based on the 1922 and 1937 editions with links to digital copies of cited editions; 2025), by Daniel Berkeley Updike, ed. by Nicholas Rougeux (illustrated HTML at c82.net)
- Hunt Roman: The Birth of a Type, by Hermann Zapf and Jack Werner Stauffacher (page images at CMU)
- Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Mary Kay Duggan (HTML at UC Press)
- Der St. Galler Folchart-Psalter: Eine Initialenstudie (in German; St. Gallen, Fehr, 1912), by Franz Landsberger
- Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use (digital edition, based on the 1922 and 1937 editions with links to digital copies of cited editions; 2025), by Daniel Berkeley Updike, ed. by Nicholas Rougeux (illustrated HTML at c82.net)
- Fine Books (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Methuen and Co., 1912), by Alfred W. Pollard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1929), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Golden Book: The Story of Fine Books and Bookmaking, Past and Present (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927), by Douglas C. McMurtrie
- The Book: Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, From Gutenberg to the Present Time (London: H. Grevel and Co., 1890), by Henri Bouchot
- The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1921), by Harry Gidney Aldis (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Story of Books (London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Story of Books (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings
- Typographia: or, The Printer's Instructor (fourth edition; Philadelphia: L. Johnson and Co., 1854), by Thomas F. Adams
- The Book: Its History and Development (London: A. Constable and Co., 1907), by Cyril Davenport (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Commemoration in Louisville of the 500th Anniversary of the Invention of Printing: An Interview Broadcast Over Station WAVE, Louisville, Ky., October 20, 1940, 10:15 to 10:30 P.M. (Louisville: Louisville Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1940), by Douglas C. McMurtrie, contrib. by Joseph D. Scholtz, C. Frank Mann, and William C. Lutz (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The General History of Printing, From its First Invention in the City of Mentz, to its First Progress and Propagation Thro' the Most Celebrated Cities in Europe, Particularly its Introduction, Rise and Progress Here in England (completed after Palmer's death by Psalmanazar; London: Printed by the author, 1732), by Samuel Palmer and George Psalmanazar
- A General History of Printing, From the First Invention of it in the City of Mentz, to its Propagation and Progress Thro' Most of the Kingdoms of Europe, Particularly the Introduction and Success of it Here in England (completed after Palmer's death by Psalmanazar; London: Printed for A. Bettesworth et al., 1733), by Samuel Palmer and George Psalmanazar
- Typographical Antiquities: History, Origin, and Progress of the Art of Printing, From its First Invention in Germany to the End of the Seventeenth Century, and From its Introduction Into england, by Caxton, to the Present Time (London: S. Fisher, and Lee and Hurst, 1797), by Henry Lemoine
- The Commemoration in Louisville of the 500th Anniversary of the Invention of Printing: An Interview Broadcast Over Station WAVE, Louisville, Ky., October 20, 1940, 10:15 to 10:30 P.M. (Louisville: Louisville Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1940), by Douglas C. McMurtrie, contrib. by Joseph D. Scholtz, C. Frank Mann, and William C. Lutz (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries (partial serial archives)
- Dot-Font: Talking About Design (text-only version; originally published 2006), by John D. Berry (multiple formats with commentary at dot-font.com)
- Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use (digital edition, based on the 1922 and 1937 editions with links to digital copies of cited editions; 2025), by Daniel Berkeley Updike, ed. by Nicholas Rougeux (illustrated HTML at c82.net)
- The First Printing in Alberta (reprinted from Printing Review of Canada; 1932), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Early American Printing: An Exhibition at the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan (Bulletin #15; Ann Arbor: Printed at the Alumni Press, University of Michigan, 1927), by William L. Clements Library, contrib. by Randolph Greenfield Adams
- The Introduction of Printing Into Canada: A Brief History (Montreal: Rolland Paper Co., 1930), by Aegidius Fauteux (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Early Printing in Barbados (London: Privately printed, 1933), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dendermondsche Drukpers (in Dutch; Dendermonde: F.-J. Du Caju, 1890), by Jan Broeckaert (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Medieval Mirror: Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1324-1500 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by Adrian Wilson and Joyce Lancaster Wilson (illustrated HTML at UC Press)
- Early Printing in Wyoming and the Black Hills (Heartman's Historical Series #67; Hattiesburg, MS: Printed for the Book Farm, 1943), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Earliest British Columbia Imprint (reprinted from Printing Review of Canada, 1931), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The First Printing in British Columbia (Chicago: Privately printed, 1929), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)
- A History of California Newspapers, 1846-1858 (originally published in the Sacramento Union; edited reprint Los Gatos, CA: Talisman Press, 1962), by Edward C. Kemble, ed. by Helen Harding Bretnor (page images at HathiTrust)
- California Imprints, August 1846-June 1851 (1922), by Henry R. Wagner
- The Introduction of Printing Into Canada: A Brief History (Montreal: Rolland Paper Co., 1930), by Aegidius Fauteux (multiple formats at archive.org)
- List of Books Printed in Connecticut, 1709-1800 (Hartford: Hartford Press, 1904), by J. Hammond Trumbull, ed. by Annie Eliot Trumbull (page images at HathiTrust)
- La Imprenta en La Habana (1707-1810): Notas Biográficas (in Spanish; Santiago de Chile: Imp. Elzeviriana, 1904), by José Toribio Medina
- The First Printing in Dominica (London: Privately printed, 1932), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Beginnings of Printing in Abyssinia (extract from The Library; 1930), by S. Gaselee (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Print and Power in Early Modern Europe (1500-1800) (Leiden ad Boston: Brill, c2021), ed. by Nina Lamal, Jamie Cumby, and Helmer J. Helmers
- The Typographic Treasures in Europe, and a Study of Contemporaneous Book Production in Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Holland and Belgium (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1925), by Edward Everett Bartlett, contrib. by J. W. Muller
- L'Atelier de Guillaume Le Talleur, Premier Imprimeur Rouennais: Histoire et Bibliographie (in French; Rouen: Impr. A. Lainé, 1916), by P. Le Verdier
- The First Printing in Georgia (Metruchen, NJ: Printed for C. F. Heartman, 1927), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)
- James Johnston, Georgia's First Printer (Savannah: Pigeonhole Press, 1956), by Alexander A. Lawrence, contrib. by Ray Dilley (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, From 1640-1708 A. D. (3 volumes; London: Privatly printed, 1913-1914), by Stationers' Company (London, England), ed. by George Edward Briscoe Eyre, contrib. by Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust)
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