Type, Volume 1: A Visual History of Typefaces and Graphic Styles
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\ Steven Heller…a collection of exquisitely reproduced pages from an array of lusciously printed vintage foundry specimen books that were used to promote type fonts to commercial printers. Many quirky specimens in this compilation predate the mid-1800s, but most were produced in the second half of the 19th century, when fierce competition among foundries fostered an abundance of smartly designed and ludicrously gaudy faces…Type offers a generous selection of pages from some of the most historically significant and largely forgotten typeface volumes.\ —The New York Times\ \
