*ATTENTION: Every graphic designer must own this book…….Thinking with Type!
Thinking with Type is a really useful guide to using typography in visual communication design, from digital screen-based typography to print. Author, Ellen Lupton displays the latest information on style sheets, the use of ornaments and captions, using uppercase and lowercase, as well as information on font licensing, mixing typefaces, and hand lettering. Throughout the book, visual examples show how to be inventive within systems of typography, what the rules are and how to break them.
Thinking with Type is a type book for a range of people, including designers, writers, editors, students, and anyone else who works with and uses words.
Ellen Lupton is a writer, curator, and graphic designer. She is director of the Graphic Design MFA program at Maryland Institute College of Art. As curator of contemporary design at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum since 1992, she has produced numerous exhibitions and books.
There is also a popular online addition to Thinking with Type (www.thinkingwithtype.com) in which a lot of the resources are also displayed. 
Type Anatomy – Thinking with Type, Ellen Lupton.