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The papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Vol. 96:3 : September 2002
The papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Vol. 96:3 : September 2002
Publication
The papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Vol. 96:4 : December 2002
The papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Vol. 96:4 : December 2002
Publication
The papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Vol. 97:1 : 2003
The papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Vol. 97:1 : 2003
Publication
The papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Vol.91:4 ; Dec. 1997
The papers of the Bibliographical Society of America. Vol.91:4 ; Dec. 1997
Publication
The poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier.
The poetical works of John Greenleaf Whittier.
Book
The praise of the needle, from The Needles Excellency / by John Taylor 1634
The praise of the needle, from The Needles Excellency / by John Taylor 1634
Book
The pres : a poem in two parts / by John McCreery
The pres : a poem in two parts / by John McCreery
Book
The preservation of leather bindings : background, organization of a project, and procedures / Meredith Brown.
The preservation of leather bindings : background, organization of a project, and procedures / Meredith Brown.
Book
The press, like fire, is an excellent Servant, but a terrible Master / James Fenimore Cooper
The press, like fire, is an excellent Servant, but a terrible Master / James Fenimore Cooper
Publication
The psychology of printing types / Henry Lewis Bullen
The psychology of printing types / Henry Lewis Bullen
Book
The restoration of beauty to life / A.J. Penty
The restoration of beauty to life / A.J. Penty
Book
The restoration of leather bindings / Bernard C. Middleton ; drawings by Aldren A. Watson and Seymour Fleishman.
The restoration of leather bindings / Bernard C. Middleton ; drawings by Aldren A. Watson and Seymour Fleishman.
Book
The restoration of leather bindings / Bernard C. Middleton.
The restoration of leather bindings / Bernard C. Middleton.
Book
The return of Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966.
The return of Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966.
Book
The scholar
The scholar's arithmetic; or, Federal accountant ... The whole in a form and method altogether new, for the ease of the master and the greater progress of the scholar
Book
The speech of John Ball, from A dream of John Ball / by William Morris
The speech of John Ball, from A dream of John Ball / by William Morris
Book
The story of a bad boy / by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
The story of a bad boy / by Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
Book
The structural style in cabinet making / by Gustav Stickley
The structural style in cabinet making / by Gustav Stickley
Book
The summit of the years / John Burroughs
The summit of the years / John Burroughs
Book
The sun shines not on us but in us / John Muir
The sun shines not on us but in us / John Muir
Publication
The typographic book : Catalogue 225. Books about typographic books and their makers, type and typography.
The typographic book : Catalogue 225. Books about typographic books and their makers, type and typography.
Publication
The typographic book [Catalogue 223]
The typographic book [Catalogue 223]
Publication
The word and the machine / H.W. Auden
The word and the machine / H.W. Auden
Book
Theatre de Clara Gazul / Prosper Merimee.
Theatre de Clara Gazul / Prosper Merimee.
Book
Themes in Aquatint / Colin Franklin
Themes in Aquatint / Colin Franklin
Book
Theory and Practice of Bookbinding
Theory and Practice of Bookbinding
Book
There is no frigate like a book
There is no frigate like a book
Publication
There is no thrift in craft until the tool is mastered / Frank Lloyd Wright
There is no thrift in craft until the tool is mastered / Frank Lloyd Wright
Publication
There is something bigger and more worth while ... / Bernard Maybeck
There is something bigger and more worth while ... / Bernard Maybeck
Publication
There was a knight came riding by ... / William Morris
There was a knight came riding by ... / William Morris
Publication
There will always be quiet souls ... / Candace Wheeler
There will always be quiet souls ... / Candace Wheeler
Publication
Thermo-Hygrometer.
Thermo-Hygrometer.
Publication
Thick & Thin Lined Pallet Fillet
Thick & Thin Lined Pallet Fillet
Object/Artifact
Thirty-fourth Annual Chicago Book Clinic Exhibit 1983
Thirty-fourth Annual Chicago Book Clinic Exhibit 1983
Book
Thirty-sixth Annual Members
Thirty-sixth Annual Members' Exhibition / presented by The Hand Bookbinders of California
Book
This is Bad / Lindsey Anne baker
This is Bad / Lindsey Anne baker
Book
Threads of Grey and Gold / Myrtle Reed
Threads of Grey and Gold / Myrtle Reed
Book
Three Wonderlands of the American West / Thomas D. Murphy
Three Wonderlands of the American West / Thomas D. Murphy
Book
Three- Masted Ship plate die
Three- Masted Ship plate die
Object/Artifact
Threescore Years and Beyond; Or, Experiences of the Aged / W.H. De Puy
Threescore Years and Beyond; Or, Experiences of the Aged / W.H. De Puy
Book
Time claim thine own! / Art Worker
Time claim thine own! / Art Worker's Guild
Publication
Times of Stress Are Times for Success
Times of Stress Are Times for Success
Book
Timothy
Timothy's Quest: A Story for Anybody, Young or Old, Who Cares to Read It / Kate Douglas Wiggin
Book
Tiverton Tales / Alice Brown
Tiverton Tales / Alice Brown
Book
To Mount Shasta / Joaquin Miller
To Mount Shasta / Joaquin Miller
Publication
Today I worked well-the picture fell off the brush / Malcolm Yorke
Today I worked well-the picture fell off the brush / Malcolm Yorke
Book
Today is your day and mine ... / David Starr Jordan
Today is your day and mine ... / David Starr Jordan
Publication
Told in the Hills / Marah Ellis Ryan
Told in the Hills / Marah Ellis Ryan
Book
Tom Brown at Oxford / Thomas Hughes
Tom Brown at Oxford / Thomas Hughes
Book
Tom Brown
Tom Brown's School Days / Thomas Hughes
Book
Tom Brown
Tom Brown's School-Days, By an Old Boy / Thomas Hughes
Book
Tommy Hickup; Or, A Pair of Black Eyes / Rose Abbott
Tommy Hickup; Or, A Pair of Black Eyes / Rose Abbott
Book
Tommy Thumb
Tommy Thumb's Song Book / Nurse Lovechild
Book
Tommy Thumb
Tommy Thumb's Song Book Vol. II
Book
Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song-Book: The First Collection of English Nursery Rhymes / Andrea Immel, Brian Alderson
Tommy Thumb’s Pretty Song-Book: The First Collection of English Nursery Rhymes / Andrea Immel, Brian Alderson
Book
Tommy
Tommy's Messages
Book
Tommy
Tommy's Thirty
Book
Tommy
Tommy's Twenty-Five Keepsakes
Book
Traveling with the Birds: A Book on Bird Migration / Rudyerd Boulton
Traveling with the Birds: A Book on Bird Migration / Rudyerd Boulton
Book
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World / Lemuel Gulliver
Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World / Lemuel Gulliver
Book
Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson
Treasure Island / Robert Louis Stevenson
Book
Treasures from the Bodleian Library / A.G. and W.O. Hassall ; introd. by R.W. Hunt.
Treasures from the Bodleian Library / A.G. and W.O. Hassall ; introd. by R.W. Hunt.
Book
Tree ornament die
Tree ornament die
Object/Artifact
Trees Worth Knowing / Julia Ellen Rogers
Trees Worth Knowing / Julia Ellen Rogers
Book
Truth is our element of life ... / John Tyndall
Truth is our element of life ... / John Tyndall
Publication
Try again, fail again, fail better / Samuel Beckett
Try again, fail again, fail better / Samuel Beckett
Publication
Tuf-Text, sample card #0702-003
Tuf-Text, sample card #0702-003
Publication
Tulip full cover die
Tulip full cover die
Object/Artifact
Tulip ornament die
Tulip ornament die
Object/Artifact
Turkish bookbinding in the 15th century : the foundation of an Ottoman court style / Julian Raby and Zeren Tanindi ; edited by Tim Stanley.
Turkish bookbinding in the 15th century : the foundation of an Ottoman court style / Julian Raby and Zeren Tanindi ; edited by Tim Stanley.
Book
Turrets, Towers, and Temples As Seen and Described By Famous Writers / Esther Singleton
Turrets, Towers, and Temples As Seen and Described By Famous Writers / Esther Singleton
Book
Twelve Narratives for Christmas / Carole Jacobs
Twelve Narratives for Christmas / Carole Jacobs
Book
Twelve centuries of bookbindings, 400-1600 / by Paul Needham
Twelve centuries of bookbindings, 400-1600 / by Paul Needham
Book
Twelve centuries of bookbindings, 400-1600 / by Paul Needham.
Twelve centuries of bookbindings, 400-1600 / by Paul Needham.
Book
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea /Jules Verne
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea /Jules Verne
Book
Twenty-fourth convention, International Brotherhood of Bookbinders ; Boston, Massachusetts "The hub of the universe," July 15 to 20, 1946.
Twenty-fourth convention, International Brotherhood of Bookbinders ; Boston, Massachusetts "The hub of the universe," July 15 to 20, 1946.
Publication
Twinrocker Handmades.
Twinrocker Handmades.
Publication
Two Bites At A Cherry: With Other Tales / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Two Bites At A Cherry: With Other Tales / Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Book
Two modern binders : William Matthews & Edgar Mansfield / 12 April until 24 June 1978, in association with Designer Bookbinders.
Two modern binders : William Matthews & Edgar Mansfield / 12 April until 24 June 1978, in association with Designer Bookbinders.
Book
Two photos on the rescue efforts in Florence
Two photos on the rescue efforts in Florence
Photograph
Tympan and Frisket
Tympan and Frisket
Object/Artifact
Type Holder with Mounted Screw
Type Holder with Mounted Screw
Object/Artifact
Type Holder with Mounted Screw and Wooden Handle
Type Holder with Mounted Screw and Wooden Handle
Object/Artifact
Type Holder with Mounted Screw and Wooden Handle
Type Holder with Mounted Screw and Wooden Handle
Object/Artifact
Type Holder with Mounted Screw and Wooden Handle
Type Holder with Mounted Screw and Wooden Handle
Object/Artifact
Type/Lettering Pallet
Type/Lettering Pallet
Object/Artifact
Type: Baskerville 24 and 30 Point
Type: Baskerville 24 and 30 Point
Object/Artifact
Type: Baskerville 36 Point
Type: Baskerville 36 Point
Object/Artifact
Type: Card Press
Type: Card Press
Object/Artifact
Type: Large Unknown Font
Type: Large Unknown Font
Object/Artifact
Type: Scotch Roman 12 Point
Type: Scotch Roman 12 Point
Object/Artifact
Typeset Forme
Typeset Forme
Object/Artifact
Typophilia or the love of printing for its own sake ... / Holbrook Jackson
Typophilia or the love of printing for its own sake ... / Holbrook Jackson
Publication
Uarda: Roman Aus dem Alten Aegypten / Georg Ebers
Uarda: Roman Aus dem Alten Aegypten / Georg Ebers
Book
Uber das MarionettenTheater / Heinrich von Kleist
Uber das MarionettenTheater / Heinrich von Kleist
Book
Umbilical
Umbilical
Photograph
Umbria Tiepolo Rosaspina
Umbria Tiepolo Rosaspina
Publication
Uncanonized: A Romance of English Monachism / Margaret Horton Potter
Uncanonized: A Romance of English Monachism / Margaret Horton Potter
Book
Uncle Lisha
Uncle Lisha's Shop and a Danvis Pioneer / Rowland E. Robinson
Book
Uncle Tom
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly / Harriet Beecher Stowe
Book
Universalism Not of God / Matthew Hale Smith
Universalism Not of God / Matthew Hale Smith
Book
Unknown Switzerland: Reminiscences of Travel / Victor Tissot
Unknown Switzerland: Reminiscences of Travel / Victor Tissot
Book
Unsrer Frauen Leben / Franz Ebhardt
Unsrer Frauen Leben / Franz Ebhardt
Book
Unter Vier Augen: Reznicek-Album / Ferdinand von Reznicek
Unter Vier Augen: Reznicek-Album / Ferdinand von Reznicek
Book
Unter den Dolomiten: Roman / Konrad Telmann
Unter den Dolomiten: Roman / Konrad Telmann
Book
Use and abuse of machinery and its relationship to the arts & crafts / Gustav Stickley
Use and abuse of machinery and its relationship to the arts & crafts / Gustav Stickley
Book
Variety Samples.
Variety Samples.
Publication
Vellum Over Stiff Boards with Heinke Pensky-Adam
Vellum Over Stiff Boards with Heinke Pensky-Adam
Object/Artifact
Vellum de Luxe Group B Starch Filled Cloth.
Vellum de Luxe Group B Starch Filled Cloth.
Publication
Venetian Life: With Illustrations From Original Water Colors / William Dean Howells
Venetian Life: With Illustrations From Original Water Colors / William Dean Howells
Book
Ventana
Ventana
Photograph
Vick
Vick's Illustrated Monthly Magazine
Book
Visitors are no proper companions in the chamber of sickness ... / Samuel Johnson
Visitors are no proper companions in the chamber of sickness ... / Samuel Johnson
Publication
Vox Clamantis / John B. Tabb
Vox Clamantis / John B. Tabb
Publication
Wanted- A Chaperon / Paul Leicester Ford
Wanted- A Chaperon / Paul Leicester Ford
Book
Was there a time / Dylan Thomas
Was there a time / Dylan Thomas
Publication
Was there a time / Dylan Thomas
Was there a time / Dylan Thomas
Publication
Washi no Mise. [Catalog]
Washi no Mise. [Catalog]
Publication
Wasn
Wasn't grandpa a windy old fellow? : My life story / by James WIlber Gwin.
Book
Wassa Nigerian goatskins
Wassa Nigerian goatskins
Publication
Waterfalls
Waterfalls
Publication
Waverley, Or,
Waverley, Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since / Sir Walter Scott
Book
Waverley: Or,
Waverley: Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since / Sir Walter Scott
Book
We Japanese / Frederic De Garis.
We Japanese / Frederic De Garis.
Book
Weave from art a garment for your soul / Andre Chaves
Weave from art a garment for your soul / Andre Chaves
Publication
Western Books - The 60th annual exhibition : 2001.
Western Books - The 60th annual exhibition : 2001.
Publication
What Can A Woman Do: Or, Her Position in the Business and Literary world / Mrs. M.L. Rayne
What Can A Woman Do: Or, Her Position in the Business and Literary world / Mrs. M.L. Rayne
Book
What of the morrow / by Albert G. de Quevedo
What of the morrow / by Albert G. de Quevedo
Book
When Knighthood Was In Flower / Edwin Caskoden
When Knighthood Was In Flower / Edwin Caskoden
Book
When a type design is good ... / Frederic W. Goudy
When a type design is good ... / Frederic W. Goudy
Publication
When soul is stripped from craft, form is bereft of any human value / Humphry Clinker
When soul is stripped from craft, form is bereft of any human value / Humphry Clinker
Print
When through the old oak forest I am gone ... / John Keats
When through the old oak forest I am gone ... / John Keats
Publication
When we listen to Don Quixote ... / Samuel Johnson
When we listen to Don Quixote ... / Samuel Johnson
Publication
Where Ghosts Walk: The Haunts of Familiar Characters in History and Literature / Marion Harland
Where Ghosts Walk: The Haunts of Familiar Characters in History and Literature / Marion Harland
Book
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? / Melville
Where lies the final harbor, whence we unmoor no more? / Melville
Publication
White As Snow / Edward and Ruth Garrett
White As Snow / Edward and Ruth Garrett
Book
Why Women Cry, or Wenches with Wrenches / Elizabeth Hawes
Why Women Cry, or Wenches with Wrenches / Elizabeth Hawes
Book
Will H. Bradley: His Work / Anthony Bambace
Will H. Bradley: His Work / Anthony Bambace
Book
William Morris / by Walter Crane
William Morris / by Walter Crane
Book
William Morris in the making / Elisabeth Luther Cary
William Morris in the making / Elisabeth Luther Cary
Book
William Morris, an essay / by Elbert Hubbard
William Morris, an essay / by Elbert Hubbard
Book
William Tolson Limited ... incorporating Bole Hall Mill Co.
William Tolson Limited ... incorporating Bole Hall Mill Co.
Publication
Winnie and Walter
Winnie and Walter's Christmas Stories / Increase Niles Tarbox
Book
Winter Sunshine / John Burroughs
Winter Sunshine / John Burroughs
Book
Winter in Florence
Winter in Florence
Object/Artifact
Woman and puppet / by Pierre Louys ; illustrations by William Siegel.
Woman and puppet / by Pierre Louys ; illustrations by William Siegel.
Book
Woman standing near a peacock at a lake
Woman standing near a peacock at a lake
Print
Women Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement 1870-1914 / Anthea Callen.
Women Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement 1870-1914 / Anthea Callen.
Publication
Women bookbinders, 1880-1920 / Marianne Tidcombe.
Women bookbinders, 1880-1920 / Marianne Tidcombe.
Book
Wonders of Nature As Seen and Described By Great Writers / Esther Singleton
Wonders of Nature As Seen and Described By Great Writers / Esther Singleton
Book
Wood type tray with 2mm brass type (set of 155)
Wood type tray with 2mm brass type (set of 155)
Object/Artifact
Wood type tray with brass 3mm type letters (set of 144)
Wood type tray with brass 3mm type letters (set of 144)
Object/Artifact
Wood type tray with set of 5mm brass type (set of 140)
Wood type tray with set of 5mm brass type (set of 140)
Object/Artifact
Wood type tray with set of lead 3mm type letters (set of 123)
Wood type tray with set of lead 3mm type letters (set of 123)
Object/Artifact
Wooden Tool Handle
Wooden Tool Handle
Object/Artifact
Wooden Tool Handle
Wooden Tool Handle
Object/Artifact
Wooden Tool Handle
Wooden Tool Handle
Object/Artifact
Word & image : members book exhibition
Word & image : members book exhibition
Publication
Word & image : members book exhibition.
Word & image : members book exhibition.
Publication
Work table
Work table
Object/Artifact
Works of Ralph Green.
Works of Ralph Green.
Book
Worksheet on book construction
Worksheet on book construction
Archive
Woven and interlocking book structures : from the Janus, Steiner, and Gefn presses / Claire Van Vliet and Elizabeth Steiner.
Woven and interlocking book structures : from the Janus, Steiner, and Gefn presses / Claire Van Vliet and Elizabeth Steiner.
Book
Wrench
Wrench
Object/Artifact
XI contras
XI contras
Photograph
XLVII
XLVII
Photograph
XVII
XVII
Photograph
XVIII t2
XVIII t2
Photograph
XXIV
XXIV
Photograph
XXV
XXV
Photograph
XXX Plus One
XXX Plus One
Book
XXXII
XXXII
Photograph
XXXVI
XXXVI
Photograph
Yes do send me a book ... / Dorothy Wordsworth
Yes do send me a book ... / Dorothy Wordsworth
Print
Yes, surely! And if others can see it ... / William Morris
Yes, surely! And if others can see it ... / William Morris
Publication
You can sell a book by its cover : optimism in American publishing ; a Book Arts Press exhibition by Darby Kimball in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, 17 October 1998-6 February 1999.
You can sell a book by its cover : optimism in American publishing ; a Book Arts Press exhibition by Darby Kimball in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, 17 October 1998-6 February 1999.
Book
Young Folk
Young Folk's History of Mexico / Frederick A. Ober
Book
Zelma / Josephine Franklin
Zelma / Josephine Franklin
Book
Zur Kriegszeit Durch China, 1900-1901 / Georg Wegener
Zur Kriegszeit Durch China, 1900-1901 / Georg Wegener
Book
Züricher Novellen / Gottfried Keller
Züricher Novellen / Gottfried Keller
Book
[Acid-free binder
[Acid-free binder's board samples]
Object/Artifact
[Catalog and Price lists for brass hand tools]
[Catalog and Price lists for brass hand tools]
Publication
[Correspondence and paper samples from Kalamazoo Handmade Papers]
[Correspondence and paper samples from Kalamazoo Handmade Papers]
Archive
[Folder of paper samples from Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead]
[Folder of paper samples from Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead]
Archive
[Forest scene with water and swan]
[Forest scene with water and swan]
Print
[Harcourt Bindery book cloth samples]
[Harcourt Bindery book cloth samples]
Publication
[Holliston Samples]
[Holliston Samples]
Publication
[Letter from Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead about Bodleian Paper]
[Letter from Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead about Bodleian Paper]
Object/Artifact
[Letter from Andrews/Nelsons/Whitehead to Eugenia Maddox]
[Letter from Andrews/Nelsons/Whitehead to Eugenia Maddox]
Object/Artifact
[Letter from Don Essmyer to Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead]
[Letter from Don Essmyer to Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead]
Object/Artifact
[Russel Bookcrafts sample papers]
[Russel Bookcrafts sample papers]
Publication
[Sample books, order form, and price lists from Aiko
[Sample books, order form, and price lists from Aiko's Art Materials]
Publication
[Samples and announcements from Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead]
[Samples and announcements from Andrews/Nelson/Whitehead]
Archive
[Samples of lignin free board]
[Samples of lignin free board]
Object/Artifact
[Talas catalogs for hand tools]
[Talas catalogs for hand tools]
Publication
arból I BAJA
arból I BAJA
Photograph
fastback HARDCOVER
fastback HARDCOVER
Publication
guild of Book Workers Newsletter ; Number 224 , February 2016
guild of Book Workers Newsletter ; Number 224 , February 2016
Publication
i went walking
i went walking
Book
ola b
ola b
Photograph
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