'Typology'

quite an excellent book on typography has crossed my horizon. Not only giving examples of all sorts of type from the times of the Barnum Bailey posters on through art deco on through stuff happening in Europe during the world ward, but on through today's wicked diversity of typographic diversity.

typography, like many art forms, is cyclical in nature; trends are picked up, abandoned, then, after 20 years or so, picked off some attic, dusted off, and touted as the 'new revolutionary thang'. Of course, always adding something along the way...

I adore the illustrations/examples in this book, as well as the historical analyzis.

ISBN 0 8118 2308 3