I think this book is probably the first coffee-table type publication devoted to trademarks. The author is Japanese (it was printed there but it's all in English) and he researched the 763 marks. It has a linen cover and excellent paper for the mostly black art though there are color background pages and some marks in colour where that was an important part of the design.
A really nice thing about the book is that so many of the marks are big on the page but mixed in with spreads that have maybe up to twenty-four but still with plenty of space around them. The only downside is that information about each mark is on twenty-six pages at the back. A bit of a nonsense when there is plenty of room on each spread for this text and it would avoid having to keep flipping to the back to find out who designed a mark, the company name and country.
Well worth finding a copy but check the title, 292 pages and the 1966 publication date because the author Yusaku Kamekura edited other trademark books, which I don't think were as sumptuous as this one.
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