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ARTISTS' BOOKS

Bindman, D: William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books [Thames and Hudson Ltd 2001]

Bury, S. Artists' Books: The Book as a Work of Art; 1963-1995, [Great Britian; Scolar Press 1995] 

Castleman, R: A Century of Artists Books; [New York: Museum of Modern Art 1995] 

Compton, Susan, P: World Backwards: Russian Futurist [Paperback; British Library 1978]

Compton, Susan, P: Russian Avant-Garde Books 1917-34 [MIT Press, 1992]

Courtney, C: Speaking of Book Art; [Anderson-Lovelace 1999]

Drucker, J: The Century of Artists' Books; [New York: Granary Books 1995]

Klima, S: Artist's Books: A Critical Survey of the Literature [Granary Books 1998]

GENERAL

Bland, D: A history of Book Illustration [Faber & Faber 1958]

Glaister,G.A: Glossary of the Book, [George Allen & Unwin 1960]

Lewis, J: Printed Ephemera [Faber 1969]

Lewis , J: The 20th Century Book [Herbert Press 1984]

McLean, R: Victorian Book Design & Colur Printing [Faber 1972]

Moran, J: Printing Presses; History & Development from the Fifteenth Century to Modern Times [Faber & Faber 1973]

Themerson,S: Apollinaire's Lyrical Ideograms; [Gaberbocchus 1968]

Wellen, A: (contributor) Watson, V [ed] The Cambridge Guide to Children's Books in English [Cambridge University Press 2001] 

TYPE AND LETTERFORMS

Altman,R: Tecken, lettres, Signes, Ecritures; [Malmö Konsthall 1978]

Berkeley,D.B: Printing Types; two volumes; [Dover books 1980]

Grey, N: The Art of Lettering and the March of History; [Central School of Art 1982]

Hutt, A: Fournier, the compleat typographer; [Frederick Muller Ltd. 1972]

Massin: Letter and Image [Studio Vista 1970]

McLean, R: Jan Tschichild: Typographer; [Lund Humphries 1975]

Meynell, F: the Typography of Newspaper Advertisements [Ernest Benn 1929]

Osley, A.S: Scribes and Sources, Handbook of the Chancery Hand in the 16th Century; [Faber and Faber 1980]

Twyman, M: Printing 1770 - 1970 [Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1970]

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