Here are some interesting references for font junkies, available from Amazon.com. I have several. The reason I don't have all of them is money and shelf space. There's space left in the bathroom for shelves, but the humidity is not good for the books.
- IdentaFONT - I think this is a great set!
- American Type Design and Designers
- An A-Z of Type Designers
- Rookledge's International Handbook of Type Designers
- From Gutenberg to OpenType: An Illustrated History of Type from the Earliest Letterforms to the Latest Digital Fonts
- Classic Type Faces and How to Use Them : Including 91 Complete Fonts
- Type Style Finder: The Busy Designer's Guide to Type
- Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works
- Type & Layout: Are You Communicating or Just Making Pretty Shapes?
- Typography 26 the annual from the Type Directors Club, 2005
- Typography 27 the annual from the Type Directors Club, 2006
- Arabic Typography
- Language Culture Type: International Type Design in the Age of Unicode
- Letterforms: Bawdy, Bad and Beautiful: The Evolution of Hand-Drawn, Humorous, Vernacular, and Experimental Type
Books for those who have more than one hobby:
- Decorative Alphabets Charted Designs
- Scrapbooker's Alphabets: Inspiration and Instruction for 50 Fabulous Decorative Alphabets
- Decorative Alphabets Stained Glass Pattern Book
Dan Solo has put together some wonderful collections of fonts. The Solotype Catalog is a collection of samples of cold type (the little pieces of lead with ink on them). These are wonderful references for font junkies (me! me! me!) and I have quite a number of these. There are a number of fonts digitized by Dan Solo, as well as a short bio, available at MyFonts
- The Solotype Catalog of 4,147 Display Typefaces
- 100 Calligraphic Alphabets
- 100 Decorative Condensed Alphabets
- 100 Ornamental Alphabets
- Art Deco Display Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Art Nouveau Display Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Art Nouveau Typographic Ornaments
- Bold Script Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Brushstroke and Free-Style Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Celtic and Medieval Alphabets : 53 Complete Fonts
- Circus Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Classic Roman Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Condensed Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Decorative Display Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Elegant Display Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Extended Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Extra-Bold Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Foreign-Language Alphabets
- Gothic and Old English Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Grunge Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts
- Moderne Alphabets: 100 Complete Fonts
- Outline Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Pattern Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Rustic and Rough-Hewn Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Sans-Serif Display Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Script and Cursive Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Showcard Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Special-Effects and Topical Alphabets
- Stencil Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Swash Letter Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts
- Three-D and Shaded Alphabets : One-Hundred Complete Fonts
- Victorian Display Alphabets : 100 Complete Fonts