Browse this page for resources on typography located in the Maryland Room in Hornbake Library. You may also search the online catalog for books on this topic using the suggested subject headings below.
Additional books on this topic can be found in McKeldin Library and the Art Library at the University of Maryland. These resources are searchable using the online catalog. The location of each book is noted in the catalog record.
The books listed on this page are organized into two categories:
Use the subject terms below to search the University of Maryland Library online catalog for additional titles. Simply select "Subject beginning with..." on the drop-down menu. Then enter one of the terms below.
Advertising layout and typography
Alphabets
Calligraphy
Caslon, William, 1693-1766
Gill, Eric, 1882-1940
Graphic design (Typography)
Morris, William, 1834-1896
Morison, Stanley, 1889-1967
Printing -- Specimens
Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957
Type and Typefounding
Type and type-founding -- Specimens
Type designers
Typesetting
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941
For more information on the typography, consult materials from the William Morris Collection, the Maurice Annenberg Collection, and the W.A. Dwiggings Collection.
Alphabets to order : the literature of nineteenth-century typefounders’ specimens by 
How typography happens by 
Illuminating letters : typography and literary interpretation by 
Pioneers of modern typography by 
The typographic desk reference: TDR by 
Type & typography : highlights from Matrix, the review for printers and bibliophiles
Type : the secret history of letters by 
Typeforms : a history by 
Nineteenth-century American designers & engravers of type by 
Twentieth century type designers by 