The standard on typefaces, anywhere, is Updyke's two volume Printing
Types, available in several editions.

Beyond that, there is a huge bibliography of typestyles in each
national literature. As for Dutch and English typestyles, good luck!
The two nations were very close in the early period, with Dutch
printers doing English books and vice versa.



At 8:08 PM +0000 11/23/02, Pat Reynolds wrote:
>Dear Everyone,
>
>Can anyone recommend reading on typography? Ideally, I'd like works that
>illustrate typefaces used by printers around the world (excepting
>southern Europe) in the early modern period.  If there is something
>which is comparative, so much the better, but I'm happy to work out for
>myself the difference between a Netherlands V of 1600 and a US V of
>1800.


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