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Frederic W. Goudy

8 March 1865 - 11 May 1947

Frederic W. Goudy (Bloomington, Illinois, March 8, 1865 – Marlborough-on-Hudson, May 11, 1947) was a prolific American type designer whose typefaces include Copperplate Gothic, Kennerly, and Goudy Old Style.[Source][1]

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  • Cover of: Alphabet and Elements of Lettering

    First published in 1922 7 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition alphabetelements00goud_128
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  • Cover of: The alphabet: fifteen interpretative designs drawn and arranged with explanatory text and illustrations

    First published in 1918 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: half-century of type design and typography, 1895-1945.

    First published in 1946 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Typologia: studies in type design & type making, with comments on the invention of typography, the first types, legibility, and fine printing

    First published in 1940 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Alphabet: Fifteen Interpretative Designs Drawn and Arranged with Explanatory Text and Illustrations

    First published in 2018 3 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Elements of Lettering

    First published in 2019 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The alphabet and Elements of lettering: Revised and enlarged, with many full-page plates and other illustrations

    First published in 1952 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The city of crafts: a phantasy being some account of a journey to the court of the printers' guild.

    First published in 1922 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: Elements of lettering: with XIII full-page plates

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  • Cover of: Goudy's type designs: his story and specimens : being a virtual facsimile of the Typophiles chap books XIII and XIV, A half-century of type design and typography

    First published in 1978 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The story of the Village type

    First published in 1933 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Types of the past, type revivals: with a few words on type design in general

    First published in 1936 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: The type speaks

    First published in 1937 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Why we have chosen Forest Hills Gardens for our home.

    First published in 1915 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable
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  • Cover of: The capitals from the Trajan Column at Rome.

    First published in 1936 2 editions in 1 language
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  • Cover of: Typologia: studies in type design & type making, with comments on the invention of typography, the first types, legibility, and fine printing

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  • Cover of: Ands & ampersands, from the first century B.C. to the twentieth A.D.

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Subjects
Type and type-founding, Specimens, History, Printing, Printers, Alphabets, Alphabet, Appreciation, Biography, Type designers, Autographs, Lettering, Ampersand, Autograph albums, Friends and associates, Layout (Printing), Legibility (Printing), Village Press, 1865-1947, Advertising layout and typography, Anecdotes, Anecdotes, facetiæ, satire, Artists, Bible, Goudy, Frederic William,
Places
United States, New York, New York (State), California, England, Forest Hills (New York, N.Y.), Italy, N.Y. Deepdene, New York (N.Y.), Venice
People
Frederic W. Goudy (1865-1947), Bertha Goudy (1869-1935), Frederic W. Goudy, Frederic W Goudy, Johann Gutenberg (1397?-1468), Lowell Thomas (1892-1981), William Morris (1834-1896)
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20th century

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  • Frederic W Goudy
  • Frederic GOUDY
  • Frederic W 1865-1947 Goudy
  • Frederic W. 1865-1947 Goudy
  • Frederic W. (Frederic William) Goudy
  • FREDERIC WILLIAM GOUDY
  • Fredric W. Goudy

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