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This folder contains books and other printed or handwritten materials that inform the practices of bookbinding and trades related to bookbinding (paper-making, marbling, leather working, gilding, etc). The majority of texts are directly related to the process or history of bookbinding, while additional areas of focus include exhibition catalogs focused on rare or design bindings, printed and bound keepsakes from the Hand Bookbinders of California and private presses, and printing.

'Put a resolute hart to a steep hill' : William Gowans antiquary and bookseller : a lecture : given on 12 December 1988, the fourth Sol. M. Malkin lecture in bibliography / by Roger E. Stoddard.
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'Put a resolute hart to a steep hill' : William Gowans antiquary and bookseller : a lecture : given on 12 December 1988, the fourth Sol. M. Malkin lecture in bibliography / by Roger E. Stoddard.
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A History of the most distinguished martyrs : in various ages and countries of the world; embracing accounts of their sufferings and death, with other interesting particulars.
BookA Londoner's view of three Los Angeles printer friends and their work : Grant Dahlstrom, Saul Marks, Ward Ritchie / John Dreyfus.
Book![A Primer of book collecting. Third revised edition. By John T. Winterich and David A. Randall. [With illustrations, including facsimiles.].](
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A Primer of book collecting. Third revised edition. By John T. Winterich and David A. Randall. [With illustrations, including facsimiles.].
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A collection of bookbindings, vol. 2, a catalogue of North-European bindings, by Mirjam M. Foot.
BookA dictionary of abbreviations commonly used by German and Italian antiquarian booksellers and auctioneers / Bernard M. Rosenthal
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A fine fall miscellany : literature, Americana, early printing, science, mountaineering.
Publication![A history of the principal and most distinguished martyrs in the different ages of the world; : giving an account of their birth, life, sufferings and death; and particularly their dying words in testimony of that religion which they professed. : [Six lines from Revelation] : Illustrated with copperplate engravings.](
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A history of the principal and most distinguished martyrs in the different ages of the world; : giving an account of their birth, life, sufferings and death; and particularly their dying words in testimony of that religion which they professed. : [Six lines from Revelation] : Illustrated with copperplate engravings.
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A millennium of the book : production, design & illustration in manuscript & print, 900-1900 / edited by Robin Myers & Michael Harris.
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A register of artists, engravers, booksellers, bookbinders, printers & publishers in New York City, 1821-42 / compiled by Sidney F. & Elizabeth Stege Huttner.
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A selection of books from the library of D. Steven Corey / with a preface by William P. Barlow, Jr.
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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.
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A showing of trade books presented by the members of the New York Book Clinic, selected by the members, from their own work and that of designers associated with them, as examples of the book designer's problem and its handling / exhibited under the auspices of the American Institute of Graphic Arts at the Architectural League, New York, June 1937.
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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.
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A typological tally: thirteen hundred writings in English on printing history, typography, bookbinding and papermaking.
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A wide-ranging selection of books on books & printing together with many fine press books and a large gathering of volumes of bibliography : ... and a few notable books of and about ... calligraphy.
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Adventures of America, 1857-1900 : a pictorial record from Harper's weekly / by John A. Kouwenhoven.
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Allusion & Imagery in the Book Art of Sarah Wyman Whitman Catalogue 2 / Adrienne Horowitz Kitts
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Americana, featuring Mark Twain, Books on the West and fine press books from Western presses.
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Americanized Encyclopedia britannica, revised and amended. A dictionary of arts, sciences and literature; to which is added biographies of livings subjects ...
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Americanized Encyclopedia britannica, revised and amended. A dictionary of arts, sciences and literature; to which is added biographies of livings subjects ...
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Americanized Encyclopedia britannica, revised and amended. A dictionary of arts, sciences and literature; to which is added biographies of livings subjects ...
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Americanized Encyclopedia britannica, revised and amended. A dictionary of arts, sciences and literature; to which is added biographies of livings subjects ...
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Americanized Encyclopedia britannica, revised and amended. A dictionary of arts, sciences and literature; to which is added biographies of livings subjects ...
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Americanized Encyclopedia britannica, revised and amended. A dictionary of arts, sciences and literature; to which is added biographies of livings subjects ...
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Americanized Encyclopedia britannica, revised and amended. A dictionary of arts, sciences and literature; to which is added biographies of livings subjects ...
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Americanized Encyclopedia britannica, revised and amended. A dictionary of arts, sciences and literature; to which is added biographies of livings subjects ...
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An Ethiopian binding with silver plaques, crosses, and pins : English and foreign bookbindings 83
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An Exhibition of hand bookbinding, case-making, restoration, calligraphy & illumination, and hand-decorated papers / sponsored by the Guild of Book Workers.
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An introduction to a history of woodcut: with a detailed survey of work done in the fifteenth century / by Arthur M. Hind.
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Anniversary catalogue: One Hundred and Twenty Fine Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art Selected to Commemorate the 70th anniversary of John Howell-Books ...
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Antioch Bookplate Company : Excerpts from the autobiography of Ernest Morgan 1905-2000 / Ernest Morgan
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Art Nouveau and Art Deco bookbinding : French masterpieces, 1880-1940 / Alastair Duncan & Georges de Bartha ; preface by Priscilla Juvelis.
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Art deco bookbindings : the work of Pierre Legrain and Rose Adler / Yves Peyre and H. George Fletcher.
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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].
BookArtist, bookbinder, renovator: fine bindings, old books and bindings restored, prints etc. cleaned, lettering and illustrating.
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Atlas zu C.F.G. Thon's Kunst Bücher zu binden, oder Die Buchbinderei in allen ihren theilen und auf dem neuesten Standpunkte.
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Beschrijvinghe ende onderwijsinghe ter discreter ende vermaerder consten des boeckbinders handwerck / door Anshelmus Faust = Prescription et enseignement de la discrète et fameuse science de la manifacture des relieurs de livres / par Anshelmus Faust ; édité avec une introduction et des notes par Georges Colin.
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Beschrijvinghe ende onderwijsinghe ter discreter ende vermaerder consten des boeckbinders handwerck / door Anshelmus Faust = Prescription et enseignement de la discrète et fameuse science de la manifacture des relieurs de livres / par Anshelmus Faust ; édité avec une introduction et des notes par Georges Colin.
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Beschrijvinghe ende onderwijsinghe ter discreter ende vermaerder consten des boeckbinders handwerck / door Anshelmus Faust = Prescription et enseignement de la discrète et fameuse science de la manifacture des relieurs de livres / par Anshelmus Faust ; édité avec une introduction et des notes par Georges Colin.
BookBib-li-op-e-gis-tic : (pertaining to the art of binding books.--Dibdin) : to which is appended a glossary of some terms used in the craft : with illustrations of fine bindings.
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Bibliologia comica; or, Humorous aspects of the caparisoning and conservation of books, by Lawrence S. Thompson.
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Binding Terms : a Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloguing / prepared by the Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (ACRL/ALA).
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Book and job printing in Chicago; a study of organizations of employers and their relations with labor, by Emily Clark Brown.
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Book collecting : personal rewards and public benefits : a lecture delivered at the Library of Congress on December 7, 1983 / by William P. Barlow, Jr.
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Book-binding for bibliophiles / Fletcher Battershall ; edited, with an introduction by Jack C. Thompson.
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Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books : a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology / Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington ; drawings by Margaret R. Brown.
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Bookbinding and the care of books : a text-book for bookbinders and libraries / by Douglas Cockerell, drawings by Noel Rooke, and other illustrations.
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Bookbinding before 1600 : a guide and hand-list to the exhibition : twelve centuries of bookbindings.
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Bookbinding in Colorado : creating practical art through hand and machine, 1860-1980 : an exhibition at Auraria Library, October 24 - December 15, 1994 / Karen B. Jones, Terry Ann Mood, Rutherford W. Witthus.
Book![Bookbinding in Great Britain : sixteenth to the twentieth century / [compiled by Bryan D. Maggs].](
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Bookbinding in Great Britain : sixteenth to the twentieth century / [compiled by Bryan D. Maggs].
BookBookbinding, a manual for those interested in the craft of bookbinding, written and illustrated by William F. Matthews.
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Bookbinding, and the care of books : A handbook for amateurs, bookbinders & librarians / By Douglas Cockerell with drawings by Noel Rooke and other illustrations.
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Bookbinding, and the care of books; a handbook for amateurs, bookbinders & librarians / by Douglas Cockerell, with drawings by Noel Rooke and other illustrations.
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Bookbindings & other bibliophily : essays in honour of Anthony Hobson / edited by Dennis E. Rhodes ; foreword by Frederick B. Adams.
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Bookbindings by T.J. Cobden-Sanderson; an exhibition at the Pierpont Morgan Library, September 3-November 4, 1968. / Compiled by Frederick B. Adams, Jr.
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Bookcraft : how to construct note pad covers, boxes, and other useful items / Annette Hollander.
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Books : their history, art, power, glory, infamy and suffering according to their creators, friends and enemies / Gerald Donaldson.
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Books for the millions : a history of the men whose methods and machines packaged the printed word / Frank E. Comparato.
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Books, boxes & wraps : binding & building step-by-step / Marilyn Webberley & JoAn Forsyth ; illustrations by Marilyn Webberley.
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Books, manuscripts, autograph letters, bindings : from the ninth to the present century: catalogue one hundred.
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Bound to please : an exhibition of fine leather bindings from the University of Miami Library : July 14-September 19, 1997
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Bound to vary : a Guild of Book Workers exhibition of unique fine bindings on the Married Mettle Press limited edition of Billy Budd, sailor.
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Brandhof : études pour une maternité : twelve design bindings / University of Alabama, 5th floor Book Arts Gallery, Gorgas Library.
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Brandhof : études pour une maternité : twelve design bindings / University of Alabama, 5th floor Book Arts Gallery, Gorgas Library.
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Brandhof : études pour une maternité : twelve design bindings / University of Alabama, 5th floor Book Arts Gallery, Gorgas Library.
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Buen uso de la teologia moral segun la doctrina, y espiritu de la iglesia, por el P. Fr. Francisco Guijarro.
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California bookplates : a keepsake for the members of The Book Club of California / Robert Dickover.
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Cartas Persianas escritas en Frances / por Montesquieu; puestas en Castellano por D. J. Marchena.
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Catalogue 1098: compromising a large collection of books on book binding and several hundred volumes of signed or unusual bindings of the nineteenth century, the majority from the library of E. P. Wormersly
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