A Selection of Sixteen Art Reference Books on Typography by Books and Reference

Provenance:
From the Collection of Dennis Reid

- "Epistles to the Torontonians: With Articles from Canadian Printer & Publisher" (Carl Dair, Rod McDonald, William Ross, 2015) stamped by Dennis Reid (his name in Chinese characters);

- "The Encyclopaedia of Type Faces" (Alfred F. Johnson, W. Pincus Jaspert, W. Turner Berry, 1958) inscribed "Dennis R. Reid" on the inside cover page;

- "The Craft of Lettering" (John R. Biggs, 1961) inscribed "Dennis R. Reid" on the inside cover page;

- "The Art of Writing" (Unesco, 1965) inscribed "Dennis R. Reid" on the inside cover page;

- "Humane Letters: Bruce Rogers Designer of Books and Artist" (Richard Landon, 2007) stamped by Dennis Reid (his name in Chinese characters);

- "The Art of the Book" (Bernard H. Newdigate, 1938) inscribed "Dennis Reid" on the inside cover page;

- "J. Van Krimpen on Designing and Devising Type" (J. Van Krimpen, 1957) inscribed "Dennis R. Reid" on the inside cover page;

- "About Alphabets: Some Marginal Notes on Type Design by Hermann Zapff" (Hermann Zapff, 1960) signed by the author and numbered "123" on the back cover page; inscribed "Dennis R. Reid" on the inside cover page;

- "Introduction to Typography" (Oliver Simon, 1954) inscribed "Dennis R. Reid" on the inside cover page;

- "An Essay on Typography by Robert Gill" (Robert Gill, 1931) inscribed "Dennis R. Reid" on the inside cover page;

- "Typography: Basic Principles" (John Noel Claude Lewis, 1965) inscribed "Koganderson London, 1964" on the inside cover page;

- "Lettergieterij Joh. Enschedé en Zonen Haarlem, Holland" (Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1990) inscribed "D. R. Reid" on the inside cover;

- "The Puffin Book of Lettering" (Tom Gourdiem, 1961) inscribed "D. R. Reid" on the front cover;

- "Calligraphy's Flowering, Decay, and Restoration: With Hints for Its Wider Use Today" (Paul Stanford, 1947);

- "The First Writing Book" (John Howard Benson, 1955) inscribed "Dennis R. Reid" on the inside cover page;

- "Go to it : an exchange of letters in nineteen fifty eight on the subject of typography between Beatrice Warde of the Monotype Corporation of London England and Arnold Rockman, then Secretary of the Society of Typographic Designers of Canada." (Beatrice Warde, Arnold Rockman 1962)