The museum’s collection includes publications, archival records, and objects relating to bookbinding, the book industry, labor history, and rare/fine books.
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"Benyon" Ltd
Object/Artifact
"Notice. How to Open a Book." ; "Shakespeare criticism" library checkout card; ...
Collectible
"PAY-DAY" band die
Object/Artifact
"We" / Charles A. Lindbergh
Book
100 Years of Books / by Frank Romer.
Book
1mm Dot Hand Stamp
Object/Artifact
2000-01 Printing Equipment and Supply Catalog.
Book
2mm Dot Hand Stamp
Object/Artifact
35 Miniature books in designer bindings
Book
40th Anniversary Exhibition 2021: New England Chapter, Guild of Book Workers.
Book
8-Bobbin Thread Rack
Object/Artifact
A Bookbinder's Record of Bindings.
Archive
A Catalogue of Books
Publication
A Child's History of England / Charles Dickens
Book
A Collection of bookbindings
Book
A Complete History of the Life and Trial of Charles Julius Guiteau, Assassin of President Garfield / H.G. and C.J. Hayes
Book
A Cousin's Conspiracy / Horatio Alger, Jr.
Book
A Dog of Flanders / Ouida (Louisa de la Rame)
Book
A Foregone Conclusion / W.D. Howells
Book
A Guide to Materials and Equipment for the Printer by Gane. Catalog 184.
Publication
A Guide to Materials and Equipment for the Printer by Gane. Catalog 583.
Publication
A Guide to Supplies and Equipment for the Printer by Gane. Catalog 984.
Publication
A Guide to genuine gold leaf application.
Publication
A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique / Bernard C. Middleton.
Book
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts / Christopher De Hamel.
Book
A Hole in the Wall / Louisa M. Alcott
Book
A Japanese Nightingale / Onoto Watanna
Book
A Kentucky Cardinal and Aftermath / James Lane Allen
Book
A Little Book of Tribune Verse: A Number of Hitherto Uncollected Poems, Grave and Gay / Eugene Field
Book
A Maid in Arcady / Ralph Henry Barbour
Book
A Narrative of the Loss of the Winterton East Indiaman, Wrecked on the Coast of Madagascar in 1792
Book
A Pretty Tory / Jeanie Gould Lincoln
Book
A Rebellious Heroine / John Kendrick Bangs
Book
A Room of One's Own / Virginia Woolf
Book
A Sky Empty of Orion / Poems by Laura Jensen.
Book
A Song of Life
Book
A Spinner in the Sun / Myrtle Reed
Book
A Spinner in the Sun / Myrtle Reed
Book
A Study in Human Nature / Lyman Abbott, D.D.
Book
A Voice of Their Own: The Woman Suffrage Press, 1840-1910
Book
A Voyage to Brobdingnag Made by Lemuel Gulliver in the Year MDCCII / Jonathan Swift
Book
A Weaver of Dreams / Myrtle Reed
Book
A Woman Alone in the Heart of Japan / Gertrude Adams Fisher
Book
A crafted typology of the codex / Gary Frost.
Book
A degree of mastery : a journey through book arts apprenticeship / Annie Tremmel Wilcox.
Book
A list of the long term impact of the flood in Florence
Object/Artifact
A register of artists, engravers, booksellers, bookbinders, printers & publishers in New York City, 1821-42 / compiled by Sidney F. & Elizabeth Stege Huttner.
Book
A sailor's log : recollections of forty years of naval life / by Robley D. Evans.
Book
A short instruction in the binding of books / Dirk de Bray ; followed by a note on the gilding of the edges by Ambrosius Vermerck ; with an introd. and a paraphrase by K. van der Horst and C. de Wolf ; translated by H.S. Lake.
Book
A sketch of the firm of Houghton Mifflin & Company publishers, together with a description of The Riverside Press at Cambridge Massachusetts.
Book
A system of modern geography ... illustrated by an atlas of eighteen maps ... By S. Augustus Mitchell ...
Book
A taste of Texas; a book of recipes. A book of recipes edited by Jane Trahey.
Book
A typographical masterpiece : an account by John Dreyfus of Eric Gill's collaboration with Robert Gibbings in producing the Golden Cockerel Press edition of "The Four Gospels" in 1931.
Book
A/N/W's Museum Mounting Board
Publication
ABC for book-collectors / John Carter.
Book
AIR neuf prend des couleurs : livres d'artistes et reliures de création
Book
AIR neuf prend des couleurs: livres d'artistes et reliures de création.
Book
ARLINGTON
Publication
About England with Dickens / Alfred Rimmer
Book
Acid Free Papers.
Publication
Addresses / Phillips Brooks
Book
Adventures of America, 1857-1900 : a pictorial record from Harper's weekly / by John A. Kouwenhoven.
Book
Aesop's Fables Illustrated by Ernest Griset / J.B. Rundell
Book
African Game Trails / Theodore Roosevelt
Book
African Game Trails / Theodore Roosevelt
Book
Aftermath /James Lane Allen
Book
Agate Burnisher
Object/Artifact
Agate burnisher
Object/Artifact
Alberto Valese marbled paper
Publication
Allusion & Imagery in the Book Art of Sarah Wyman Whitman Catalogue 2 / Adrienne Horowitz Kitts
Book
American Folk Painters of Three Centuries
Book
American Signed Bindings through 1876 / Willman Spawn & Thomas E. Kinsella.
Book
American bookplates / William E. Butler
Book
An Albion assembly manual.
Book
An English Village: A New Edition of Wild Life in a Southern County / Richard Jefferies
Book
An Historical Sketch of Bookbinding / by S.T. Prideaux.
Book
An Island Garden / Celia Thaxter
Book
An Island Garden / Celia Thaxter
Book
An Old-Fashioned Girl / Louisa M. Alcott
Book
An introduction to a history of woodcut: with a detailed survey of work done in the fifteenth century / by Arthur M. Hind.
Book
Ancient skins parchments and leathers / R. Reed
Book
Andes baja
Photograph
Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead [information and price lists, 1985]
Object/Artifact
Aniline Leather Dyes.
Publication
Annular band die
Object/Artifact
Annular motif band die
Object/Artifact
Anthology of children's literature / Compiled by Edna Johnson & Carrie E. Scott.
Book
Antioch Bookplate Company : Excerpts from the autobiography of Ernest Morgan 1905-2000 / Ernest Morgan
Book
Antique Papers
Publication
Apuntes de Terapeutica, Materia Medica y Arte de Recetar / Dr. P. Francisco Javier de Castro.
Book
Archival Product' Catalog.
Publication
Archival Products Catalog, 1992
Publication
Archival Products [product information]
Object/Artifact
Archival Quality Interleaving, Lining & Barrier Papers.
Publication
Archival Quality Papers & Boards
Publication
Archivart
Publication
Archivart [announcement letter and samples]
Object/Artifact
Archivart museum board
Publication
Around Old Chester / Margaret Deland
Book
Arrestox-C
Publication
Art Nouveau and Art Deco bookbinding : French masterpieces, 1880-1940.
Book
Art and Printing Papers
Publication
Arte del legatore e doratore di libri / di René Martin Dudin ; con l'aggiunta di alcuni estratti di un trattato inedito di Jacques Jaugeon ; introduzione e note di Jean Toulet ; [traduzione di Cin Calabi, integrata e rivista da Eliseo Tealdi].
Book
Asahi Japanese, Bookcloth
Publication
Asahi standard stock.
Book
Ascutney Street: A Neighborhood Story / Mrs. A.D.T. Whitney
Book
Aspire to the Beautiful, The Life of Cedric Chivers
Book
Assalide: Dichtung aus der Zeit der provençalischen Troubadours / Julius Wolff
Book
At Sundown / John Greenleaf Whittier
Book
At the Back of the North Wind / George MacDonald
Book
At the Court of the Maharaja
Book
Aunt Amity's Silver Wedding and Other Stories / Ruth McEnery Stuart
Book
Aunt Jo's Scrap Bag: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, etc. / Louisa M. Alcott
Book
Avian ornament die
Object/Artifact
BABEL baja
Photograph
Baby's Kingdom / Annie F. Cox
Book
Back to Basics ... ICF eco-cover
Publication
Backing hammer
Object/Artifact
Backing hammer
Object/Artifact
Backing hammer
Object/Artifact
Bahaus ABC's ; Motion / by Pamela S. Wood.
Book
Baltic
Publication
Bamberger Kaliko: Iris 101, Sail Cloth, Tex-linen
Publication
Bancroft Book Cloth - Linen Finish.
Publication
Bancroft Book Cloth: Arrestox, Buckram.
Publication
Band Nipper Tool
Object/Artifact
Band die
Object/Artifact
Basic Crafts ... 1979 Catalog
Publication
Basic Crafts ... 1987 Catalog
Publication
Basic bookbinding / by A. W. Lewis.
Book
Beating hammer.
Object/Artifact
Beautiful bookbindings : a thousand years of the bookbinder's art / P.J.M. Marks.
Book
Before Adam / Jack London
Book
Benchmark Catalog No. 4
Publication
Benjamin Franklin : writer and printer / James N. Green [and] Peter Stallybrass.
Book
Biblio Tech: Reverse engineering historical and modern binding structures / Karen Hanmer.
Book
Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana: Treasures of Jewish Booklore
Book
Bibliothèque Raphaël Esmerian; Deuxième Partie
Book
Billets-doux
Book
Binder's table
Object/Artifact
Binding Jig
Object/Artifact
Binding structures in the Middle Ages : a selection of studies / by Berthe van Regemorter.
Book
Bindings / Jill Oriane Tarlau
Book
Bindings and Techniques with Hugo Peller
Object/Artifact
Bird & Bull Paste Papers for Bookbinding
Publication
Birds Worth Knowing / Neltje Blanchan
Book
Black & White / Pamela S. Wood.
Book
Black Rock: A Tale of the Selkirks / Ralph Connor
Book
Board shear
Object/Artifact
Boekbanden in papier / [redactie, Elizabet Nijhoff Asser, Lotje van der Peet].
Book
Bone Folder
Object/Artifact
Bone Folder
Object/Artifact
Bone Folder
Object/Artifact
Bone Folder
Object/Artifact
Bone Folder
Object/Artifact
Bone Folder
Object/Artifact
Bone Tool
Object/Artifact
Bone folders (2)
Object/Artifact
Book Arts : a catalog of equipment and supplies.
Publication
Book Press
Object/Artifact
Book Show 1980
Publication
Book open with lines of handwriting
Photograph
Book propped up by others
Photograph
BookMakers International Product Listing
Publication
BookMakers International, Ltd. ; Product listing
Publication
BookMakers [Catalog]
Publication
BookMakers [sample card]
Publication
Bookbinder's Finishing Tools
Publication
Bookbinder's Knife
Object/Artifact
Bookbinder, Mud Angel, San Francisco Legend : Stella Patri at 100
Publication
Bookbinders Finishing Tools from P&S Engraving
Publication
Bookbinders Finishing Tools from P&S Engraving
Publication
Bookbinders Sundries List
Publication
Bookbinders' finishing tool makers, 1780-1965 / by Tom Conroy.
Book
Bookbinders' roll
Object/Artifact
Bookbinders' roll
Object/Artifact
Bookbinders' roll
Object/Artifact
Bookbinders' roll, diamond pattern
Object/Artifact
Bookbinding & conservation : a sixty-year odyssey of art and craft / Don Etherington.
Book
Bookbinding / by F. R. Smith.
Book
Bookbinding Jig
Object/Artifact
Bookbinding Leathers : 4.2.1 the structure of leather / by Betty M. Haines.
Book
Bookbinding Plough
Object/Artifact
Bookbinding and the care of books : a text-book for bookbinders and libraries / by Douglas Cockerell, drawings by Noel Rooke, and other illustrations.
Book
Bookbinding as a handcraft / by Manly Banister ; photos. and drawings by the author.
Book
Bookbinding before 1600 : a guide and hand-list to the exhibition : twelve centuries of bookbindings.
Book
Bookbinding for beginners / John Corderoy.
Book
Bookbinding in America; Three essays.
Book
Bookbinding in Great Britain, 16th to 20th century / [comp. by Bryan D. Maggs].
Book
Bookbinding materials: Head Band, Book Mark, Crash & etc.
Publication
Bookbinding supplies: A questionnaire.
Publication
Bookbinding with adhesives / Tony Clark.
Book
Bookbinding, and the care of books : A handbook for amateurs, bookbinders & librarians / By Douglas Cockerell with drawings by Noel Rooke and other illustrations.
Book
Bookbinding: its background and technique / by Edith Diehl.
Book
Bookbindings & other bibliophily : essays in honour of Anthony Hobson / edited by Dennis E. Rhodes ; foreword by Frederick B. Adams.
Book
Bookbindings / John P. Harthan.
Book
Bookbindings / John P. Harthan.
Book
Bookbuilders West Book 1986
Book
Bookbuilders West Book Show 1972
Publication
Bookbuilders West Book Show 1973
Publication