TypeMedia Library: Jan Middendorp Collection

These books were donated to the TypeMedia library by Jan Middendorp in 2021. There are still titles that need to be added. Please not this is not a bibliography of Middendorp’s writing.

Image: Erik van Blokland

Jan Middendorp in his study, Berlin 2021

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↖︎ Jan Middendorp Collection

These are 28 titles related to Jan Middendorp Collection.

The books are grouped by author:
Al Ba Ca Gr Ha Hu Ju Ke Ki La Mi No Ov Sh Un Ve Wa Za Zh

↖︎ al

Altenmuller, Hartwig.
Einführung in die Hieroglyphenschrift
Buske Helmut Verlag GmbH (2010).
Section: Non-Latin writing systems

Non-Latin
Hieroglyphen
German
Jan Middendorp Collectie

↖︎ ba

Baines, Phil, Catherine Dixon.
Signs: lettering in the environment
London: Laurence King 2003.
Section: Sign/signage

Sign
Lettering
Jan Middendorp Collectie

Baker, Arthur.
Calligraphic alphabets
New York, Dover publications, cop. 1974.
Section: Calligraphy

Jan Middendorp Collectie

↖︎ ca

Carter, Harry, James Mosley.
A view of early typography up to about 1600
London: Hyphen, 2002, c1969..
Section: Typography

Jan Middendorp Collectie

↖︎ gr

Gray, Nicolete.
Lettering on buildings
Architectural P, 1960..
Section: Sign/signage

Sign
Lettering
Architecture
Jan Middendorp Collectie

↖︎ ha

Harling, Robert, Eva Svensson.
The Letter forms and type designs of Eric Gill
London: E. Svensson 1978.
Section: Type Specimen

Jan Middendorp Collectie

↖︎ hu

Huys, Bernard Lenoir, Yves Spiessens, Godelieve.
Vijf jaar aanwinsten, 1974-1978
Brussel: Koninklijke Bibliotheek Albert I p. 272-340, 26 cm 1979.
Section: Type History

Printing Techniques
Catalogue
Dutch
Jan Middendorp Collectie

↖︎ ju

Juliette, Flecheux, Jan Middendorp, Thomas Huot-Marchand, and Manuel Sesma Prieto.
Dossier Scriptorium de Toulouse
Nancy: 205 2022.
Section: Type History

Calligraphy
Handwriting
Bernard Arin
ANRT

↖︎ ke

Ken Barber.
Studio Lettering. House Industries
House Industries 2008.
Section: Type Specimen

Jan Middendorp Collectie

↖︎ ki

Kiermeier-Debre, Joseph, Fritz Franz Vogel.
Menschenalphabete: Nackte Models, Wilde Typen, Modische Charaktere
Jonas Verlag F. Kunst U. (2001).
Section: Lettering

German
Jan Middendorp Collectie

Kindersley, David, Lida Lopes Cardozo.
Letters slate cut: workshop practice and the making of letters
London: Lund Humphries, 1981..
Section: Lettercarving

Manual
Jan Middendorp Collectie

Kinross, R., Gerard Unger, Jan Middendorp, Gerrit Noordzij, Peter Verheul, and Erik Van Blokland.
Monografieën over vormgeving. Letters
Eindhoven: (Z)oo Producties 1998.
Section: Typography

Essays
Dutch
Françoise Berserik Collection

Kinross, Robin.
Modern typography
London: Hyphen Press [206 pp] 1992.
Section: Type History

Typography
Jan Middendorp Collectie

Kinross, Robin.
Modern typography: an essay in critical history
London: Hyphen Press 1992.
Section: Typography

Type History
typography
Jan Middendorp Collection

NEW ADDITION

Kinross, Robin.
Unjustified texts. Perspectives on Typography
London: Hyphen Press [391 pp] 2002.
Section: Typography

Essays
Jan Middendorp Collectie

Lamesle, Claude, Alfred Forbes Johnson.
The type-specimens of Claude Lamesle: a facsimile of the first edition printed at Paris in 1742
[Amsterdam], Menno Hertzberger, 1965.
Section: Type Specimen

Jan Middendorp Collectie

↖︎ mi

Middendorp, Jan, Erik Spiekermann.
Made with FontFont
Amsterdam: BIS 351 p, 29 cm 2006.
Section: Type History

Specimen

Middendorp, Jan.
Shaping Text
Bis Publishers 1 edition 2012.
Section: Typography

Manual
English

Middendorp, Jan.
Dutch type
Rotterdam: 010 publishers 320 p, 29 cm 2019.
Section: Type History

Peter Verheul
English
TypeMedia Studio

↖︎ no

Noordzij, Gerrit.
Le trait: une theorie de l’ecriture
Paris: Ypsilon Éditeur 2010.
Section: Type Theory

Jan Middendorp Collection

NEW ADDITION

↖︎ ov

Ovink, Gerrit Willem.
Legibility, atmosphere-value and forms of printing types
Leiden: Sijthoff [253 pp] 1938.
Section: Type Theory

Jan Middendorp Collectie

↖︎ sh

Shaw, Montague.
David Kindersley: his work and his workshop. With illustrations from the workshop archives
Cambridge: Cardozo Kindersley Editions & Uitgeverij de Buitenkant, 1989..
Section: Type Theory

Monography
Lettercarving
Jan Middendorp Collectie

↖︎ un

Unger, Gerard.
Alverata. Hedendaagse Europese letters met wortels in de middeleeuwen. Thesis
De Buitenkant, Amsterdam 2013.
Section: Type Theory

Type History
Specimen
Dutch
Jan Middendorp Collectie

↖︎ ve

Verheul, Peter, Dale Tomlinson, and Bart De Haas.
OT Versa. Een transformatie
Fontshop ?.
Section: Type Specimen

Fontshop
Jan Middendorp Collectie

Vervliet, H.D.L..
Sixteenth-century printing types of the Low Countries
Amsterdam: Hertzberger & Co XXVI, 366 p, 31 cm 1968.
Section: Type Specimen

Type History
Plantin Moretus
Jan Middendorp Collectie

↖︎ wa

Walters, John, Jan Middendorp, and Paul Barnes.
Eye Magazine, The International Review of Graphic Design #68, 2008
Victoria McDougall 2008.
Section: Periodicals

Periodical

↖︎ za

Zapf, Hermann, Paul Standard.
About alphabets: some marginal notes on type design
Cambridge (Mass.) London: M.I.T. Press, 1970..
Section: Type Theory

Jan Middendorp Collectie

↖︎ zh

Zhou, Xingsi [Verfasser] Lüdi Kong, Eva [Übersetzer] [Kommentarverfasser].
[Zhou] ; Qian zi wen = Der 1000 Zeichen Klassiker
Ditzingen: Reclam 2018.
Section: Non-Latin writing systems

Non-Latin
Chinese
German
Jan Middendorp Collectie