Alphabet Thesaurus, Volume 2 Photo-Lettering, Inc., 1965 by Edward Rondthaler [Signed with Typographic Design by Edward Benguiat]

Alphabet Thesaurus: Volume 2 by Edward Rondthaler and Staff of Photo-Lettering, Inc., New York City, 1965. Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York, USA. 9.25 x 12.25, pp. 936, hardcover. Designed by Edward Benguiat, Victor Caruso and Wilford Griffin.

This copy is boldly inscribed with black marker on the title page “Good Luck • Ed Benguiat 2/23/67.” Additionally, with a black marker, original hand lettered “BIG! FAT! CLUTZ” on transparent paper and crudely taped to the verso. 

This definitive, typographic thesaurus has been designed to help you visualize the innumerable variations through letter-by-letter proportioning. Published five years after the first Alphabet Thesaurus as a new, larger size and much heavier. It combines the best of new designs and the most important material from the first volume.

A massive reference with (44) Photo-Lettering Alphabet Showings including new sections featuring: Wood-type Revivals, Art Nouveau Xenontypes (some in color), Pop-Type, Whimzitypes and Jezebels, Decorative Borders, Cosmographs, Ziptops and others. Featuring a useful Visual Index of Categories on the end papers; divided into 18 general categories representing the major sections. This is further supplemented with a detailed Alphabet Directory and Alphabetical Index listing styles, designers, type names and alternate names.

The Alphabet Thesaurus includes meaningful text and sections devoted to: Editorial Foreword, Participating Letterers & Designers, Introduction to Volume Two, a tipped-in catalog for Spectrakrome, a color-matched preview print service, How to Use This Book, Trick Photography and Various Techniques, Photo-Lettering Operation, History of Photo-Lettering, and more. A professional and inspirational reference for typographers, lettering artists and designers.

A very good, heavy volume with light wear and scuffing to the covers, corners and edges. With a loose spine hinge (i.e. text block has separated at the spine edge). Interior pages are tight and unmarked. ”CHARLES ABRAMS” written on head of spine. Highly recommended!