A Brief Study of TSR Book Design

From the introduction:

This document is an amateur book designer’s best effort at a short and cursory analysis of the typography and book design used in early TSR Dungeons & Dragons game products. The examples studied range from the little brown books first published in 1975 to the BECMI boxed editions. This range was chosen as being most likely to be of interest and use to my particular audience, and is not meant to imply that a particular set of products is necessarily “more authentic” or better-designed than others in the TSR product line.