I've been trying for a long time to find a satisfactory solution to cataloguing my type-related printed material in a way that both allows me to keep all primary bibliographic data at hand, and at the same time allows students to see what's available to consult. My ideal solution would be a version of LibraryThing that knows how to handle books without ISBN, journals and magazines, type specimens, ephemera, and so on. So far everything I try fails at some point or other, leading to not a little frustration (especially when I forget that I've got something already…)

So I've decided to break things down in sub-lists. Some basic items first; then upload here (slowly my shelves, and try to dump into LibraryThing all the stuff with ISBNs.

Important: all lists below are in various degrees of incompleteness!


the introductory MATD booklist is sent out to incoming students a couple of months before classes start.


MATD dissertations that are recommended reading material, either before coming to Rdg or in at specific stages of work

general library

journals and magazines, listed with the run of issues present

books on typography and typeface design pre-ISBN

books on typography and typeface design post-ISBN

books by Dwiggins: written, designed or both

Greek typography and typeface design

books on Greek typography and typeface design regardless of date or origin; in English, mostly | including a section on the development of the script

articles on Greek typography and typeface design regardless of date or origin; in English

Greek books on Greek typography and typeface design regardless of date; in Greek

Greek articles on Greek typography and typeface design regardless of date; in Greek

Greek books pre-1900 Incunables, leaves, early printing, later printing before hot-metal

Greek books post-1900 examples of Greek printing, from without the Greek geography | foundry, hot-metal, and phototype

books from Greece pre-1949 examples of Greek printing, from within Greece or from Greek printers in Ottoman or western lands

books from Greece 1950–1999 examples of Greek printing, from within Greece

books from Greece 2000 onwards examples of Greek printing, from within Greece

typespecimens

typespecimens pre-1985 | from without Greece (order? chronological? by foundry? country? other?)

typespecimens post-1985 | from without Greece; selected

Greek typespecimens | pre- and post-1985, from within Greece

 
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