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Reference Books
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.

The elements of pop-up : a pop-up book for aspiring paper engineers / by David A. Carter and James Diaz.
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The extensive practice of the new husbandry, exemplified on different sorts of land, for a course of years; in which the various methods of ploughing, hoeing, harrowing, and manureing; and every other process in agriculture ... are considered and examined. To which is added an appendix ... By Mr. Forbes.
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The gentle invasion : continental emigré booksellers of the thirties and forties and their impact on the antiquarian booktrade in the United States
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The hand bookbinding tradition in the San Francisco Bay area : Leah Wollenberg, Stella Patri, Duncan Olmsted, Stephen Gale Herrick, Barbara Fallon Hiller / interviews conducted by Ruth Teiser and Catherine Harroun ; with an introduction by Deborah M. Evetts.
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The history of a hoax : Edmund Lester Pearson, John Cotton Dana, and The Old Librarian's Almanack / by Wayne A. Wiegand.
BookThe life of the book; how the book is written, published, printed, sold, and read. With line drawings by Fritz Kredel and additional illus.
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The making of the book : a sketch of the book-binding art / by Alfred J. Cox ; edited with an introduction by Paul S. Koda.
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The medieval book : catalogue of an exhibition at the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library / by Barbara A. Shailor.
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The mysterious marbler / James Sumner ; with an historical introduction, notes, and eleven original marbled samples by Richard J. Wolfe.
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The preservation of leather bindings : background, organization of a project, and procedures / Meredith Brown.
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The quest for autonomy and discipline : labor and technology in the book trades / by William S. Pretzer
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The rare book collections at Yale : recollections, 1942-1987 : a lecture / delivered by Marjorie G. Wynne
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The restoration of leather bindings / Bernard C. Middleton ; drawings by Aldren A. Watson and Seymour Fleishman.
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Thirty books and manuscripts from the Albert M. Bender collection of Mills college; with a foreword by Elizabeth Gray Potter.
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Thirty-five years at Crown Point Press : making prints, doing art / Karin Breuer, Ruth E. Fine, Steven A. Nash.
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Thomas Berthelet, royal printer and bookbinder to Henry VIII, king of England, with special reference to his bookbindings, by Cyril Davenport ...
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Turkish bookbinding in the 15th century : the foundation of an Ottoman court style / Julian Raby and Zeren Tanindi ; edited by Tim Stanley.
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Two modern binders : William Matthews & Edgar Mansfield / 12 April until 24 June 1978, in association with Designer Bookbinders.
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World of the makers : today's master craftsmen and craftswomen : text and photography / by Edward Lucie-Smith.
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Woven and interlocking book structures : from the Janus, Steiner, and Gefn presses / Claire Van Vliet and Elizabeth Steiner.
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