History of the Book: Collection Overview

• Bibliographical Methods
• Bookbinding
• Glossaries
• Histories
• Illustration and Prints
• Papermaking
• Printing, Typography, and Design
• Videos

Bibliographical Methods

• Norman E. Binns. An Introduction to Historical Bibliography. London: Association of Assistant Librarians, 1962.
• Fredson Bowers. Principles of Bibliographical Description. New York: Russell & Russell, 1962 [c1949].
  The “Bible” of bibliographic description, with the most definitive and technical explanations of techniques for describing rare books.
• Philip Gaskell. A New Introduction to Bibliography. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972.
  A more accessible book that Bowers recommended as an introduction to bibliographic description.
• Ronald B. McKerrow. An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962.
• Esdaile, James Kennedy. A Student's Manual of Bibliography. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1954.

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Bookbinding

• Jane Greenfield. ABC of Bookbinding: An Unique Glossary with over 700 Illustrations... New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 1998.
• Paul Needham. Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings, 400-1600. New York: Pierpont Morgan Library: Oxford University Press, c1979.
• Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington. Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1982.

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Glossaries

• John Carter. ABC for Book Collectors. New Castle, Del.: Oak Knoll Press, 1995.
• Geoffrey Glaister. Glaister's Glossary of the Book. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1979.
• J.F.M. Wijnekus. Elsevier's Dictionary of the Printing and Allied Industries in Four Languages, English, French, German, Dutch. New York: Elsevier, 1967.

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Histories

• Joseph Blumenthal. The Printed Book in America. Boston: D.R. Godine, 1977.
• John Carter and Percy Muir. Printing and the Mind of Man. 2nd ed. München: K. Pressler, 1983
• Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt. The Book in America. New York: Bowker, 1952.
• Douglas C. McMurtrie. The Book: the Story of Printing & Bookmaking. London: Oxford University Press, 1943.
• Joseph Moxon. Mechanick Exercises on the Whole Art of Printing, 1683-4. London: Oxford University Press, 1958.
• S.H. Steinberg. Five Hundred Years of Printing. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1996.
• Isaiah Thomas. The History of Printing in America, with a Biography of Printers and an Account of Newspapers. Barre, Mass.: Imprint Society, 1970.
• Hendrik D.L. Vervliet. The Book Through Five Thousand Years. New York: Phaidon, 1972.

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Illustration and Prints

• Bamber Gascoigne. How to Identify Prints: a Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Inkjet. New York, N.Y.: Thames & Hudson, 2004.
• Ferdinando Salamon. The History of Prints and Printmaking from Dürer to Picasso: a Guide to Collecting. New York: American Heritage Press, [1972].
• David Bland. A History of Book Illustration: the Illuminated Manuscript and the Printed Book. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969.

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Paper

• Dard Hunter. Papermaking Through Eighteen Centuries. New York: W. E. Rudge, 1930.
• Silvie Turner and Birgit Skiöld. Handmade Paper Today: A Worldwide Survey of Mills, Papers, Techniques, and Uses. London: Lund Humphries, 1983.

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Printing, Typography, and Design

• Alan Bartram. Five Hundred Years of Book Design. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001.
• T.J. Cobden-Sanderson. The Ideal Book or Book Beautiful. Eugene, Oregon: University of Oregon, J.H. Nash Fine Arts Press, 1933.
• William Everson. On Printing. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1992.
• Frederic Goudy. Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making... Berkeley: University of California Press, 1940.
• Martin Hunter and Jerry Kelly. A Century for the Century: Fine Printed Books from 1900 to 1999. New York: Grolier Club, 1999.
• Stanley Morison. The Typographic Book, 1450-1935. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963.
• William Morris. The Ideal Book: Essays and Lectures on the Arts of the Book. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1982.
• Daniel Berkeley Updike. The Well Made Book. West New York, NJ: Mark Batty, Publisher, 2002.
• Adrian Wilson. The Design of Books. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith, 1974.

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Videos

• How to Operate a Book. New York: Book Arts Press, 1986.
• The Making of a Renaissance Book. Charlottesville, VA: Book Arts Press, 2000.
• The Anatomy of a Book: Format in the Hand-Press Period. New York: Viking, c1991.

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