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