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Reference Periodicals
Periodicals that inform the practices of bookbinding and trades related to bookbinding (paper-making, marbling, leather working, gilding, etc). They also contain newsletters and membership lists related to the organizations that published journals. Titles included in this category are “Bookbinding and Book Production,” “The Abbey Newsletter,” and the “Guild of Book Workers Journal.”

Newsletter / Society of Bookbinders. The British Library conservation studios at St. Pancras / Bob Stables. Gold finishing the Brockman way / Don McNeil. Reports from meetings and regional chapters.
Publication![Nineteenth and twentieth century American and European posters including a collection of World War I and World War II posters from the Mary Meuser Memorial Library, Easton, Pennsylvania ... : public auction Thursday, December 13 [1979] ... Christie](
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Nineteenth and twentieth century American and European posters including a collection of World War I and World War II posters from the Mary Meuser Memorial Library, Easton, Pennsylvania ... : public auction Thursday, December 13 [1979] ... Christie's East, 219 East 67th Street, New York, N.Y. 10021.
Publication![Obituary: Arthur William Johnson / Alan Parker. Obituary: John Ewart Bowen / Julian Thomas. Proof of life after bookbinding / Garth While. Leather for pleasure / Philip Lee. A book of booksellers, by Sheila Markham [review] / Alan Isaac.Eloquent witnesses: bookbindings and their history, by Mirjam M. Foot [review] / Chris Arnison. A history of the Eragny Press 1894-1914, by Marcella D. Genz [review] / Ray Bonnett. The Vale Press, Charles Ricketts, a publisher in earnest, by Maureen Watry [review] / Alan Isaac. Belt and braces time / Alan Fitch. Why is nandwrought precision preferred to machine perfection? / Nigel Jury. Conference & training news, short book reviews.](
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Obituary: Arthur William Johnson / Alan Parker. Obituary: John Ewart Bowen / Julian Thomas. Proof of life after bookbinding / Garth While. Leather for pleasure / Philip Lee. A book of booksellers, by Sheila Markham [review] / Alan Isaac.Eloquent witnesses: bookbindings and their history, by Mirjam M. Foot [review] / Chris Arnison. A history of the Eragny Press 1894-1914, by Marcella D. Genz [review] / Ray Bonnett. The Vale Press, Charles Ricketts, a publisher in earnest, by Maureen Watry [review] / Alan Isaac. Belt and braces time / Alan Fitch. Why is nandwrought precision preferred to machine perfection? / Nigel Jury. Conference & training news, short book reviews.
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Obituary: Dr. Pearl E. Fogell / Don Dunbar. Smith's sewing single sheets, by Keith A. Smith [review] / Brian Read. Reports and announcements of meetings & trainings.
Publication![Obituary: Gordon Hartley (1947-2007) / Angela Sutton. The Journal of DoraDamage, by Belinda Starling [review] / Alan Isaac. The Kedermister Library / Heather Hunter. Meeting & training notes.](
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Obituary: Gordon Hartley (1947-2007) / Angela Sutton. The Journal of DoraDamage, by Belinda Starling [review] / Alan Isaac. The Kedermister Library / Heather Hunter. Meeting & training notes.
Publication![Obituary: Jan Blake 1963-2000 / Rob Shepherd. Recollections - a life in bookbinding by Bernard C. Middleton [review] / Alan Isaac. Reports of meetings, conferences, regional chapters.](
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Obituary: Jan Blake 1963-2000 / Rob Shepherd. Recollections - a life in bookbinding by Bernard C. Middleton [review] / Alan Isaac. Reports of meetings, conferences, regional chapters.
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Obituary: John Charles Vivian 1928-2002 / John Mitchell. TheFrank Hippman Memorial Library / John Lewis. The bookbinding group at the Literary & Philosophical Society of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne / Chris Calver. Reports from conferences & trainings, regional chapter news.
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Obituary: Peter Harben, 1913-1994. On the books we praise in films and plays / Roy Meador. Seminar: Parchment: historical overview & conservation of books and documents, by Frank Mowery.
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Obituary: Sally Lou Smith 1925-2007 / Alan Isaac. Innerpeffray - ancient books and country lanes / Nancy and John Cameron. Conference and training notes.
Publication![Obituary: Ursula Jowett 1935-2003 / Felicity Hutton. A Yorkshire source of decorated paper in the eighteenth century, by Tanya Schmoller [review] / Alan Isaac. Conference, training and regional chapter news & notes.](
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Obituary: Ursula Jowett 1935-2003 / Felicity Hutton. A Yorkshire source of decorated paper in the eighteenth century, by Tanya Schmoller [review] / Alan Isaac. Conference, training and regional chapter news & notes.
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Observations on Islamic calligarphy / Mohamed U. Zakariya. The Gutenberg Bible makes news again / Abe Lerner. On type: Pursuit of the ideal: the Uncial letters of Victor Hammer / David Farrell
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Octobre - Novembre (October - November) 2001, No. 226 / Claude Ribal réalisateur de decors de reliures / Yves Devaux. Les établissements Alivon depuis 1812 au service de la bibliophilie / Yves Devaux. La reliure traditionnelle chinoise / Christophe Comentale. Les couleurs minérales 3 (fin) de l'usage des pigments minéraux / Mireille Marlier. Les promenades romaines d'Anna Romanello / Christophe Comentale. Matteo Ripa et les paysages graves a l'eau-forte / Christophe Comentale. Iris Chen voyage dans les textures de papier / Christophe Comentale.
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Octobre - Novembre (October - November), No. 232 / Alexandre Dumas: un géant des lettres / Yves Devaux. Renaud Vernier: a livres exceptionnels, relieur exceptionnel / Yves Devaux. Le Musee national de l'Education / Gilles Kraemer. Les Modeles d'écriture: Un apprentissage qui a fait couler beaucoup d'encre / Francoise Gouyou Beauchamps. Le livre d'artiste a l'ENSAD: Une école novatrice / Christophe Comentale. Artistes en herbe l'enfant et le livre a l'école / Stephanie Durand. Henri Landier : Héritier de Spinoza et Rembrandt / Elisabeth Mismes-Thomas. La gravure sur bois de grand format en Chine: Les experimentations de Su Xinping / Christophe Comentale. La fabrication de la colle dans l'atelier universitaire de Kyoto / Virginie Cazenave. Voyages, fauconnerie et botanique / Yves Devaux.
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Of Bacon and of the essays / Roy Meador. Review: Theory and practice of bookbinding, by Government Printing Office. Ticketing.
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Official souvenir, Twenty-third convention, International Brotherhood of Bookbinders : Kansas City, Mo. July 24-29, 1944.
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Old bloods and penny dreadfuls / R.A. Brimmel. Richard Aldington at home / George Sims. Rum customers number four: comfort and joy / Philip Jaggard. Collecting books for their design: Francis Meynell and the Pelican Press / Ruari McLean.
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Old quilts: poetry and paperwork / Cheryl Miller. Out of the moving waves -- some notes on Chinese papermaking / James Rumford. An interview with Helmut Becker. Yasuo Kobayashi -- a young Japanese papermaker / Izhar Neumann. Paper in miniataure -- the books of Cannabis Press / Bryan R. Johnson. Asao Shimura / Donna Koretsky.
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On illustrating Dante / Barry Moser. Book arts reporter: Mexico - Juan Pascoe and his Taller Martin Pescador / William Bright. Review: Scribes and sources: Handbook of the Chancery hand in the sixteenth century, by A.S. Osley / Stephen Harvard. On type: Donald Knuth's Text & Metafont: new directions in typesetting / Donald Day.
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On type: Eric Gill's Perpetua type / James Mosley. The artist & book production / Eric Gill. Paper report: Langley, a new paper from Hayle Mill / Linnea Gentry. Obit: Leo Watt / John Bidwell.
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On wood engraving / Barry Moser. Pochoir illustration / Frances Butler. The work of William Matthews and Edgar Mansfield / Philip Smith. On Type: Private typefaces Part II / Paul Hayden Duensing.
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Only the library lasts / James D. Hart. Frederick E. Brasch: collector and historian of science / Johin Y. Cole. A brief introduction to marbling / Chris Weimann. Urban IV's papal bull / William C. Bark.
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Orlando's feline friends / Elizabeth Gant. Collecting country writers 3 -- H.J. Massingham & W. Beach Thomas / John Musty. Arms and the man / Richard Goddard.
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Out-of-print & New Books on the history of the production & distribution of print in all its manifestations / antiquarian & modern books
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Out-of-print & new books on the history of the production & distribution of print in all its manifestations / antiquarian & modern books including a selection of 18th & early 19th century school textbooks Many printed in provincial towns & cities
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Pages from a Hay diary / Keith Gowen. Dornford Yates / O.F. Snelling. 'Privately printed' -- John Martin's catalogue / Anthony Lister.
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Paper conservation catalog / the American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, Book and Paper Group.
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Paper deacidification: a bibliographic survey, part II / Danielle Mihram. An evaluation of the statistical significance of Hudson's acidity data for 17th & 18th century books in two libraries / Norbert S. Baer & Simeon M. Berman. Limp vellum bindings: their value as a conservation binding / Eileen Fitzsimons.
Publication![Pasted papers / Frank Hippman. Books as sculture - a response / Mary Bartlett. Private Press visit / John Lewis. Museum of bookbindings [Bibliotheca Wittockiana,, Brussels] / Alan Parker. Paws for thought [dog dung used in tanning] / Jeremy Francesco. Reports of various conferences and trainings](
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Pasted papers / Frank Hippman. Books as sculture - a response / Mary Bartlett. Private Press visit / John Lewis. Museum of bookbindings [Bibliotheca Wittockiana,, Brussels] / Alan Parker. Paws for thought [dog dung used in tanning] / Jeremy Francesco. Reports of various conferences and trainings
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Philip Smith: artist of the book / Eugenie Candau. Charles Meunier and the French bookbinders / Nancy Zinn. David Jones (1896-1974) / Albert Sperisen.
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Plantin Press retrospective / Michael Thompson. H. Mallette Dean, California artists and printer / Lewis Allen.
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Priceless Penguins / David Hedges. Intelligent lad wanted / Eric Norris. Arthur Machen: the wizard from Gwent / Roger Dobson.
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Printing history. New Series No. 1, January 2007 / Photography in Reproduction: Its Role in the Settlement of California / Gregory Graalfs. Experience Gutenberg Project: Printing Beorum II at the Scripps College Press / Kitty Maryatt. Review: Disbound and Dispersed: The Leaf Book Considered / Christopher de Hamel and Joel Silver. Review: No Art without Craft: The Life of Theodore Low de Vinne, Printer / Irene Tichenor. Review: Benjamin Franklin, Writer and Printer / James N. Green and Peter Stallybrass. Review: Early Type Specimens in the Plantin-Moretus Museum / John A. Lane. Review: George W. Jones: Printer Laureate / Lawrence Wallis. Review: Printer's Type in the Twentieth Century: Manufacturing and Design Methods / Richard Southall. Review: Alexander Anderson: Wood-Engraver and Illustrator / Jane Pomeroy. Review: Book Typography / Ari Rafaeli. Review: Book Typography: a Designer's Manual / Michael Mitchell and Susan Wightman. Review: The Vale Press: Charles Ricketts, a Publisher in Earnest / Maureen Watry. Review: Type and Typography: Highlights from Matrix, the Review for Printers and Bibliophiles. Review: Type Now: A Manifesto, plus Work So Far / Fred Smeijers. Review: Garamond Premier Pro: a Contemporary Adaptation / John A. Lane and Robert Slimbach. Review: The Albion Press / Reynolds Stone.
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Pulp and the academy / William McPheron. The musical library of Madame de Pompadour: early book-auction catalogues as musical sources / Albert Cohen. Durer's art of measurement / Robin R. Rider.
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Raw materials for papermaking / Simon Barcham Green. On type: the types of Jan Van Krimpen, part 1 / Walter Tracy.
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Remembering John Coleman, the founder of the Society of Bookbinders / Paul C. Delrue. Obituary: John Leslie Coleman F.R.S.A. 1915-2009 / Mike Duckworth. John Leslie Coleman FRSA- an appreciation / Peter Hanks. The library at the Beauchamp Community, Newland, Worcestershire / Angela Sutton. Meeting & training notes.
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Restoring Georgian brass line rolls / Rodney Fry. Tomorrow's past: modern bindings for antiquarian books /Jen Lindsay. Six generations of bookbinding in Florence / Richard France. Why the Web is relevant to bookbinders / Malcolm Hoppers. Conference & workshop notes.
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Review of Papierkunst / Nancy Rice. The University of Iowa Center for the Book: A new harvest / Annie Tremmel Wilcox. Experimenters in paper casting / Jody Williams. Alabama kozo / Glenn House. Alabama kozo from the University of Alabama / Glenn House. Alabama kozo paper from Minneapolis / Arla Kuipers. Grain / Suzanne Ferris.
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Review: Bookbinding for amateurs, b W.J. Crane. Joseph Mitchell at the ONY / Roy Meador.
Publication![Review: Chinese handmade paper, by Floyd Alonzo McClure / Bryan R. Johnson. Paperworks: the state of the art / Jane M. Farmer. Kim Yeong Yon: a Korean papermaker / Dorothy Field. Trinrocker [Howard Clark & Kathryn Clark] / Leonard Cox. Constructing western molds / Tim Moore. Drying box for printers and papermakers / Claire van Vliet.](
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Review: Chinese handmade paper, by Floyd Alonzo McClure / Bryan R. Johnson. Paperworks: the state of the art / Jane M. Farmer. Kim Yeong Yon: a Korean papermaker / Dorothy Field. Trinrocker [Howard Clark & Kathryn Clark] / Leonard Cox. Constructing western molds / Tim Moore. Drying box for printers and papermakers / Claire van Vliet.
Publication![Review: Headbands: how to work them, by Jane Greenfield and Jenny Hiille. A [Thornton] Wilder perspective / Roy Meador. Review: A history of English craft bookbinding technique, by Bernard C. Middleton. Review: The business of bookbinding, by Alexander J. Philipl.](
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Review: Headbands: how to work them, by Jane Greenfield and Jenny Hiille. A [Thornton] Wilder perspective / Roy Meador. Review: A history of English craft bookbinding technique, by Bernard C. Middleton. Review: The business of bookbinding, by Alexander J. Philipl.
Publication![Review: Paperthick: forms and images in cast paper, at Erie Art Museum / Ian Short. Japanese traditional wood-block printing / Richard Flavin. An American in Berlin [John Gerard] / Ingrid Evans. Review: Paper pleasures, by Faith Shannon / Cheryl Miller. Paper specimen: fermented, lime-cooked, beaten-washed raw flax / Timothy Barrett. Bast fiber stampers / Lee Scott McDonald.](
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Review: Paperthick: forms and images in cast paper, at Erie Art Museum / Ian Short. Japanese traditional wood-block printing / Richard Flavin. An American in Berlin [John Gerard] / Ingrid Evans. Review: Paper pleasures, by Faith Shannon / Cheryl Miller. Paper specimen: fermented, lime-cooked, beaten-washed raw flax / Timothy Barrett. Bast fiber stampers / Lee Scott McDonald.
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Review: The craft of bookbinding, by Eric Burdett. Katherine Anne Maria Veronica Callista Russell Porter: storyteller / Roy Meador.
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Review:Hand-made books: an introduction to bookbinding, by Rob Shepherd. Review: Book repair manual, by Robert J. Milevski. Star teachers and sterling students / Roy Meador.
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Richard Doyle, master of fairyland part II / Rodney Engen. Unappreciated authors: 1 Patrick Hamilton / O.F. Snelling. Reynolds versus Dickens: Chambers's London Journal in 1843 / William Baker.
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Robert Graves: another who never won the Nobel / Roy Meador. Workshop: long and link stitch bindings, by Pamela Spitzmueller.
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Sculptural paper / Roxane Orgill. Biographical notes: Karen Stahlecker, Jon Wahling, Walter Nottingham, Margery Freeman Appelbaum. William Rittenhouse the first papermaker in America / Henk Voorn. Photo/paper: five easy processes / Marilyn Sward. now, i am remembering this, too / Cyndi Crow. The construction of vacuum tables: theory and practice / Paul Robbert. Calligraphy in paper / Derick Pao. Review: Making paper, a look into the history of an ancient craft, by Bo Rudin / Mercedes Kerr. Review: Early vs. modern handmade papers, by Timothy Barrett / Peter Thomas. Review: Beater builders of North America, by Lee Scott McDonald.
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Search-and-rescue operations in California literature / Richard Dillon. Mary Schofield: lover of children's books / Donald Stokes. An ounce of prevention: how to care for your collection / Oswalda Deva. Out of Africa, always something new / Peter Duignan.
Publication![Seminar: Altered materials and bounded states, by Timothy Ely. A thankful tribute to - that thin tool - tried and true [pencil] / Roy Meador. Seminar: board edges, by Eleanore Ramsey.](
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Seminar: Altered materials and bounded states, by Timothy Ely. A thankful tribute to - that thin tool - tried and true [pencil] / Roy Meador. Seminar: board edges, by Eleanore Ramsey.
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Seminar: Edge gilding, by John Mitchell. The struggles, troubles, and triumphs of F. Scott Fitzgerald / Roy Meador.
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Seminar: pastepaper, traditional and contemporary, by Claire Maziarczyk. Upper leather skiving machine. Samuel Dashiell Hammett: immortal from the pulps / Roy Meador.
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September-December 2002 / Fall Highlights / Exhibitions and Events / Zines / Revealing the Mysteries: The Development of the Artist's Book in the Bay Area / [Re]Readings: Artists Books Now / Book Signing: The Cartoon History of the Universe, III / Poets Pulling Prints: Nancy Boutilier and Jewelle Gomez / BUG: Bookarts Users Group / Valentines: Endearments, Enclosures and Envelopes / HBC 30th Annual Exhibition / News from the Center / Focus on Artist's Books / Class Schedule / Instructor Biographies / Calendar / Center Information / Registration Form and Policies
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Sheila Waters and Under Milk Wood / Ashton Nichols. Printing at Oxford / Wesley B. Tanner.
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Some illustrated editions of Virgil / John Barr. Rum customers, Number three: at Abbott's Orgy / Philip Jaggard. First editions--the persistent craze: part three / Keith Nicholson. A new look at Jerome K. Jerome / D.A.N. Jones.
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Spirituality and ritual in handmade paper art ( Thomas Grade, Susan Mackin-Dolan, Sharon Lynn Ivicevik, Catherine Nash, Jeanne Jaffe, Carole Komarek)/ Krista L. Spieler. Tradition survives in Rajasthan / Simon Barcham Green. Papermaking in India, Bangladesh, and the Himalayas: an overview / Dorothy Field. Nepalese paper sample / Dorothy Field. Strengthening the handmade paper industry in India / Ajay Kumar. Sri Aurobindo Ashram handmade paper / Kartikeya Anurakta. The edible drawings of John Cage / Bernie Toale. In memoriam, Joyce Schmidt / Nellie Stavisky.
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Spring 1976 / About Books -- A Plea for a Much-Needed Program, Polly Lada-Mocarski / Restoration in Europe September-December 1975 as Observed by a Canadian Conservator, Rev. Charles A. E. Brandt / Annual Reports: President's Annual Report to the Members for 1975-76, Mary C. Schlosser / Minutes of the Annual Meeting, May 20, 1976, Grady E. Jensen / Treasurer's Report, Grady E. Jensen / By-Laws, 1976 Revision / Exhibition, Sylvia Anderle and Judith Reed / Library, Stanley E. Cushing / Program, Janet Saint Germain / Publicity, Lansing S. Moran / Small Exhibitions -- AIGA: Gwendolyn Y. Blackman / Special Projects, Polly Lada-Mocarski, Report on Opportunities for Study in Hand Bookbinding and Calligraphy / Membership, Jeanne F. Lewisohn / Programs: Janet Saint Germain / An Illustrated Talk and Demonstration of Calligraphy by Sheila Waters, Frances Manola / A Talk by Richard F. Young, Bookbinder and Restorer to the U.S. Senate, Janet Saint Germain / Richard D. Smith Speaks on Paper Deacidification, Janet Saint Germain / Small Exhibitions -- AIGA: Gwendolyn Y. Blackman / Jeanne F. Lewisohn / Supply, Mary E. Greenfield/ Necrology, Lansing S. Moran
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Stanford's original architecture and its European ancestors / Harry Sanders, Jr. An interview with Charles Field regarding his Hemingway collection / Sedgefield Thomson. Liber Pandectarum Medicine: a fifteenth-century chained book / Elizabeth Krakauer. Antonio Magliabechi: bibliomaniac extraordinaire / William P. Wreden.
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Successful small press publishing strategies / Kathy Walkup & Leigh McLellan. The small fine press as business / David R. Godine. On type: the Century familiy / Paul Shaw.
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Supplement to bulletin no.1, 1989 / Conseils et assemblée générale au cours du colloque de Manchester / Premiere Reunion du Conseil d'Administration a Manchester, le 22 septembre 1988, a la John Rylands Library
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Supplement to bulletin no.1, 1990 / 16th congres de l'Association internationale de bibliophilie a Budapest / Reunion du Conseil d'Administration tenue a Budapest, le 25 septembre 1989 a l'hotel Hilton, salle Beatrice
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Supplement to bulletin no.1, 1991 / Conseils et assemblée générale au cours du colloque de Franconie / Reunion du Conseil d'Administration tenue a Wurtzbourg, le 17 septembre 1990 a l'hotel Maritim, salle Petrini
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Supplement to bulletin no.1, 1993 / Colleque de Rome / Conseil d'Administration / Rome, le 2 octobre 1992, Hotel Plaza
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Supplement to bulletin no.1, 1995 / Colloque a Saint-Petersbourg / Conseil d'Administration / Saint-Petersbourg, le 15 septembre 1994, Hotel Astoria
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Supplement to bulletin no.1, 1997 / Colloque en Normandie / Conseil d'Administration / Caen, le 24 septembre 1996, Hotel Le Relais de Gourmets
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Supplement to bulletin no.1, 2000 / 21st congres, Japon, 1999 / Conseil d'Administration, Hakone, le 3 octobre 1999, Hotel Hakone Kowakien
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Supplement to bulletin no.1, 2001 / Conseil d'Administration / Paris, le 27 janvier 2000 / Bibliothèque nationale de France, Grande salle des commissions
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