Reference works on our bookshelf

On our bookshelf (petrabooks.ca)

Bennett, Paul (ed) Books & Printing Beil 1991 (World 1955)

Bringhurst, Robert The Elements of Typographic Style Hartley & Marks 1996 (1992)

Dowding, Geoffrey Finer points in the spacing & arrangement of type Hartley & Marks 1995 (1966)

Fowler, H.W. Modern English Usage OUP 1965 (1926)

Gowers, Sir Ernest Plain Words HMSO 1948

Hunter & Kelly A Century for the Century. Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999 The Grolier Club 1999

Oxford University Press Hart’s rules for compositors and readers at the University of Oxford OUP 1967 (1993)

Pierpont & Morgan Library Art of the Printed Book 1455-1955 Pierpont 1973

Rogers, Bruce Paragraphs on Printing Dover 1979 (Rutledge 1943)

Roget (P.W., J.L, S.R.) Thesaurus Longmans 1952 (1936)

Ryder, John Printing for Pleasure The Bodley Head 1955

Ryder, John The Case for Legibility The Bodley Head 1979

Schiffinn, André The Business of Books Verso 2000

Steinberg, S.H. Five Hundred Years of Printing The British Library & Oak Knoll Press 1996 (Penguin 1955)

Strunk & White The Elements of Style Macmillan 1972 (1959)

Tschichold, Jan The Form of the Book, Essays on the morality of good design Hartley & Marks 1991 (1975)

University of Chicago Press The Chicago Manual of Style 1993 (1969)