Fine Press: Selected Reference Resources in Print

The following books offer a good overview of fine printing and printers in California over the past century.

A Natural History of the Typestickers of Los Angeles, Compiled from the Letters of Wm. M. Cheney. William M. Cheney and Edwin H. Carpenter, compilers. Los Angeles: Rounce & Coffin Club, 1960.
Fine Printing: the San Francisco Tradition by James D. Hart. Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1985.
Fine Printing: the Los Angeles Tradition by Ward Ritchie. Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1987.
Fine Printers: the New Generation in Southern California by Ward Ritchie. Sacramento, Calif.: California State Library Foundation, 1988.

The following books address typographic and other design concerns of finely printed books.

Five Hundred Years of Book Design by Alan Bartram. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001.
The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson. Eugene, Or.: University of Oregon, J.H. Nash Fine Arts Press, 1933.
On Printing by William Everson. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1992.
Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making by Frederic Goudy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1940.
A Century for the Century: Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999 by Martin Hunter and Jerry Kelly. New York : The Grolier Club, 1999.
The Typographic Book, 1450-1935 by Stanley Morison. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.
The Ideal Book: Essays and Lectures on the Arts of the Book. William Morris. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1982.
The Well Made Book by Daniel Berkeley Updike. West New York, NJ : Mark Batty, Publisher, 2002.
The Design of Books by Adrian Wilson. Salt Lake City : Peregrine Smith, Inc.; 1974.

The following classic periodicals are among the most important that focused on typographic and other design issues of finely printed books.

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