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ABC for Book Collectors

The Book: the Story of Printing and Bookmaking

Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft

An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students

A New Introduction to Bibliography

Bookbinding: Its Background and Technigue

Encyclopedia of the Book

Collector's Progress

A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books

Nicholas Basbanes Interview

The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime

review

Fresh Air

ABC de bibliophilie: d�finitions des termes du glossaire de bibliophilie - French book terms. "Pr�par� par des membres de la CLAQ sous la direction de Michel Villeneuve, libraire."
Abbey Newsletter: Preservation of Library and Archival Materials - Ellen McCrady, Editor. Searchable and browsable by author and title. Examples of contents include NYPL To Dust Books, Biblioth�que Nationale: A Building Hostile to Preservation and Access, Hill Monastic Manuscript Library and Mold: The Whole Picture (three parts).
Abstracts of International Conservation Literature (AATA Online) - "Comprehensive database of 100,000 abstracts of literature related to the preservation and conservation of material cultural heritage." (Getty Conservation Institute)
AddALL: Book Searching and Price Comparison - Allows you to search and compare book price at 41 bookstores. Similar resources include Best Book Buys and A1 BookMall. Used, rare and out-of-print bookstore comparison services include BookFinder, Bibliofind, Used Book Search and Advanced Book Exchange. European resources include Bibliopoly, a multilinqual online database of rare books for sale from the stock of leading and specialised dealers (Polybiblio in static html), Antiqbook from the Netherlands Antiquarian Booksellers' Network, Libri@ntichi and WorldBookDealers.
Advanced Book Exchange - Searchable and browsable service for buying and selling out-of-print, used, rare and antiquarian books. Provides a useful Glossary of Terms.
Amazon.com - Essential titles for book collectors include ABC for Book Collectors by John Carter and Nicolas Barker, The Book: the Story of Printing and Bookmaking by Douglas C. McMurtrie, Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft by Dard Hunter, An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students by Ronald McKerrow, A New Introduction to Bibliography by Philip Gaskell, Bookbinding: Its Background and Technigue by Edith Diehl and Encyclopedia of the Book by Geoffrey Ashall Glaister. Consider, too, Collector's Progress by Wilmarth Lewis or A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books by Nicholas A. Basbanes. (There is a transcript of the October 15, 1995 C-SPAN Booknotes Nicholas Basbanes Interview.) The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime by Miles Harvey, describes the plundering of academic library map collections by Gilbert Bland. Hear a review (in RealAudio) of the book by critic Maureen Corrigan on the Thursday, September 28, 2000 Fresh Air.
American Antiquarian Society - Worcester, Massachusetts. Offers telnet access to their online catalog. Recently published is the Dating American Tract Society Publications Through 1876 from External Evidences: A Series of Tablesby S.J. Wolfe, cataloguer. A Summer Seminar in the History of the Book in American Culture was offered June 15-20, 2003.
American Book Prices Current (ABPC) - Among the articles is The Poetics of Exhibition Catalogues by D. W. Kummel, a lecture on the philosophy and theory of exhibition catalogues as literature delivered at the ALA in July 2000. There is a list of auction houses.
American Printing History Association
American Society Of Bookplate Collectors And Designers
Americana Exchange - Articles, worldwide auction listings, calendar and Americana bibliographical database (the last item is a paid service).
Animal, Vegetable and Mineral: Natural History Books by Ten Authors - Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University.
Annuaire Electronique International des Librairies de Livres d'Occasion - Pascal Chartier's directory lists over 3,000 book stores (in English or in French).
Antiqbook - Provided by Netherlands Antiquarian Booksellers' Network (NAN), the site offers searchable databases, online catalogues, information [bio-bibliographic, auctions, exhibitions, directories, libraries, etc.], mailing lists, and free book search service. There are 4 searchable books and prints databases in the NAN Searchable Database.
Antiquarian Book Dealers and Associations on the World Wide Web - Connectotel Production
Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America - Site allows you to find dealers by specialty. There is also a section for New Bookseller Catalogs. The Collectors' Corner offers Member Publications, a Glossary of Terms and Book Collecting Links. The Stolen Books Database, assembled by Ken Sanders, makes available information about rare books which have been stolen from dealers, institutions and collectors.
Antiquarian Booksellers' Association International
Antiquarian Bookseller's Association of Switzerland
Antiquarian Book Monthly - UK publication features "breaking news, a features digest and a ten day rolling fairs and auctions calendar."
Archive of Watermark Images - Robert W Allison, Bates College.
Arion Press - Limited edition books with original art, designed and published by Andrey Hoyem, San Francisco.
L'art du Livre Arabe - Biblioth�que Nationale de France exhibition (9 October 2001 to 13 January 2002). There are sections on bindings, calligraphy, printing, papyrus, parchment & paper, illumination and illustration. This is site rich in images ranging from the medieval to the contemporary.
ArtNet Worldwide - With links to a number of galleries, searchable by gallery name, artist name, location, and specialty. Some book related sites include W. Graham Arader III and J.N. Bartfield.
Arts of the Book Collection - Yale University Library. Contents include Collections and Book Arts Links.
Aspects of the Victorial Book - British Library
Associazione Librai Antiquari d'Italia
Auldbooks
Back Issue Finder - "Marketplace for locating and selling hard-to-find, out-of-print and back issue periodicals including newspapers, magazines and comic books, as well as a wide variety of ephemera (paper collectible) items such as programs, postcards, posters and trading cards."
Bancroft Incunabula - Patrick Russell, cataloguer emeritus at the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley, has created a searchable database of over 400 incunabula titles. Related resources include Virtual Library Geschichte: Bereichs Historische Hilfswissenschaften: Handschriftenkunde / Kodikologie: Buchgeschichte, Catalogo Edizioni Antiche, The Infancy of the Art of Printing and Brandeis University Libraries Incunabula.
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek - OPAC of the Bavarian State Library in Munich contains records of all works in the library which were printed between 1501 and 1840 and from 1982 onwards.
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library - Yale University site provides a useful Guide to the collections and a Finding Aid Database which provides access to many archival and manuscript collections in the Beinecke as well as the Sterling and Divinity Library collections. In the Beinecke Rare Book Library Digital Collections you can view images of manuscripts, letters, photographs, drawings, engravings, paintings, objects. The library is particularly rich in American literature and Western Americana. Try a phrase search for Hilda Doolittle, William Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, Norman Holmes Pearson, Langston Huges, David Herbert Lawrence, Alfred Stieglitz, Maximilian Wied, W.H. Jackson, George Catlin, Edward S. Curtis, Hartley Burr Alexander, Alfred J. Miller, John James Audubon, Codex Borbonicus.
Berg Collection - New York Public Library's Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature "is one of America's most celebrated collections of first editions, rare books, autograph letters, and manuscripts." (The collection can be searched via NYP's online catalog: CATNYP.)
Bernard Quaritch - Antiquarian booksellers, London
Best Book Buys - Searches 22 online stores
Bibliofind - Nine million old, used and rare books offered here for sale by three thousand booksellers around the world; provides Search Form and includes AB Bookman's for-sale listings.
Bibliographical Society of Canada
Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia - Provides full-text access to Studies in Bibliography, searchable or browsable by volume (vols. 1-52, 1948-1999) and author.
Bibliographical Society (London) - Provides Tables of Contents for The Library, the Society's quarterly journal.
Bibliographical Society of America - Has a good collection of links to bibliography and textual criticism Internet resources.
Bibliography of Imprints of the German Speaking Countries in the Seventeenth Century (VD17) - "All German titles and all titles which have been printed or published in the former German speaking countries will be catalogued. Only printed music and maps are excluded." (Try a search for N�rnberg.)
Biblioklepts - Christopher Reed's article on book theft from university libraries in March-April 1997 issue of Harvard Magazine. (Reed also wrote stolen ancient coins at Harvard in Picking Harvard's Pocket in the May/June 2000 issue.)
Bibliopolis: Domaine du Livre Ancien - Canadian site has an interesting collection of liens to other resources. (In French.)
Bibliopoly - Beta version of multilinqual online database of rare books for sale from the stock of leading and specialised dealers.
Bibliotheca Canadiana: A Historical Survey of Canadian Bibliography - Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Libraries
Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana Chess & Draughts collection - Rich collection of chess and draughts books in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek. With images from the collection (Chess and draughts).
Biblioth�que Municipale de Lyon - Thousands of images from the library's magnificent collection of illuminated manuscripts and incunabula from the Fifth Century to the Renaissance can be accessed by clicking on Bases de Donnees and then connexion � la base Enluminures.
BIBSOCAN - Internet Discussion Group on Bibliography - Bibliographical Society of Canada
Bienes Center for the Literary Arts - This Ft. Lauderdale, Florida Special Collections and Rare Book Library site features online Exhibitions, (including ZYX: An Exhibition of Selected ABC Books from the Jean Trebbi Collection).
Blissful Books and Bindings: The Susan Dwight Bliss Collection - Online exhibition of bindings from some of the 1,200 volumes relating to the fine arts, travel, and French and English history and literature housed in the Bowdoin College George J. Mitchell Department of Special Collections & Archives. Includes a catalog of collection and a glossary of binding terms.
Bloomsbury Book Auctions - London. Available online is the catalogue for the 26 September 2002 auction of Books from the Library at Donaueschingen, "the biggest private library to come on to the market in the 20th century". For additional information on the holdings of the Donaueschingen Court Library see Donaueschingen Digital, a German project coordinated by Klaus Graf.
Book and Paper Group Annual - Non-juried anthology of papers pertaining to the conservation and preservation of works of art on paper, books and library and archival materials. Full-text of Volume 12 (1993), Volume 13 (1994), Volume 14 (1995), Volmue 15 (1996), Volume 16 (1997) and Volume 18 (1999). There are also Table of Contents for Volumes not yet available online. (The American Institute for Conservation.)
Book Arts-L Archives - "Mailing list based at Syracuse University, and managed by Peter Verheyen. It currently claims over 1100 subscribers worldwide, among them practicing bookbinders, book-artists, marblers, papermakers, printers, collectors, curators in libraries, and people just interested in our wide and varied field."
Books Arts Summer Workshop - Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire
Book Arts Web - Peter Verheyen's collection of links to a large selection of book arts related sites on the web, including galleries with images.
Book Collecting Resources on the Web, Mostly - Chris Mays
Book History Online (Nederlandse Boekhistorische Vereniging) - Offered by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, BHO "is a database in English on the history of the printed book and libraries. It contains titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book worldwide. It is based on ABHB, the Annual Bibliography of the History of the printed Book and Libraries."
Book Information Website - Cor Knops, Fine Press Book Association. (Originally developed by Ton Cremers.)
Booklover's Repair Kit: 1st Aid for Home Libraries - By Estelle Ellis, Wilton Wiggins, Douglas Lee. Available at Amazon.com, which supplies photographs of the contents. The kit consists of the The Booklover's Repair Manual, 160p, illus., and the following: pH-neutral adhesive, document-cleaning pad, transparent mending tape, mounting and hinging tape, red cotton library tape, bone folder, art gum eraser, soft white eraser, Pink Pearl eraser, microspatula, dust cloth, silicone release paper, binder's board, archival mat board, Canson paper, cotton gloves, bamboo brush, china bristle brush, artist brushes, #2 and #4, knitting needle, plastic cutting board, bulldog clamps, and archival permanent glue stick.
Book Sales in America - Gives dates and other details about used book sales run by libraries and non-profit groups.
Book Trade Lives - British Library Sound Archive
Bookbinding and the Conservation of books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology - Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington (from Conservation OnLine).
BookFinder - Anirvan Chatterjee's online bookstore search and shopping agent (new, used & antiquarian).
Bookhad - Project established to "to provide support for nationwide research activities in the fields of book history and book design." There is a collection of links to relevant web sites.
Books & Book Collecting - Steve Trussel
Books Go to War: the Armed Services Editions in World War Two - Virtual catalog of an exhibition about the history of the Armed Services editions held at the University of Virginia, April 20 to September 10, 1996.
Bookwebsites - Links to over 120,000 book-related websites in 5,400 categories.
Briar Press - "Preserving the art of letterpress." Has a Letterpress Museum.
British Library - Their Turning the Pages provides full-text access to Leonardo's Notebook, Sforza Hours, Lindisfarne Gospels, Luttrell Psalter, Golden Haggadah,Blackwell's Herbal, Vesalius's Anatomy, Sherborne Missal, Diamond Sutra, and Sultan Baybars' Qur'an. Collect Britain is a collection of online "maps, prints and drawings, photographs and documents, [and] rare early sound recordings from around the globe." It promises to have "100,000 items by September 2004." They also offer a Database of Bookbindings and a Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts. Book Trade Lives, part of the British Library Sound Archives' Oral history National Life Story Collection is a "project to record the experiences of those who have worked in UK publishing and bookselling between the early 1920s and the present day. Interviews are being carried out with representatives from all levels and sectors of the trade, from invoice clerks and warehouse staff to wholesalers, editors, sales staff and executives." Their National Sound Archive is "one of the largest sound archives in the world." You can search the Sound Archive catalogue. There is a lengthy description, for example, of an interview with Charles Clark (1933 - ) conducted by Sue Bradley in 2002 consisting of 23 sixty-minute tapes. This is one of the many interviews in the NLSC: Book Trade Lives series (part of the larger National Life Story Collection) which consists of over 100 interviews with publishers and booksellers. "This project was begun in 1998. The purpose of the project is to record the experiences of those who have worked in UK publishing and bookselling between the early 1920s and the present day. Interviews are being carried out with representatives from all levels and sectors of the trade, from invoice clerks and warehouse staff to wholesalers, editors, sales staff and executives." Other interviews with descriptive summaries include Christina Foyle (1911-1999), Kate Pocock (1948 - ) (listen to excerpt), Thomas Joy (1904-2003) (listen to excerpt),
Buyer's Market - a Selection of Recent Acquisitions - University of Virginia Library.
C18-L: Resources fo 18th century studies across the disciplines - Virtual forum that works by circulating posted messages via e-mail to all subscribers. Selected Readings is a bibliography of eighteenth-century studies.
CMI Archival Acid Free Boxes - MicroClimate archival containers are a clamshell design manufactured to customer supplied measurements. (See ExLibris Archives for May 2001 for various opinions on these boxes.) Ocker & Trapp Library Bindery, founded by founded by bookbinders Ralph Ocker and Herbert Trap, also makes Custom Enclosures and University Products offers "adjustable rare book storage boxes."
California International Antiquarian Book Fair San Francisco, February 23-25, 2001.
Cambridge History of of English and American Literature - Chapter 18 , by H. G. Aldis, is on the Book Trade and Chapter 19, by J. Bass Mullinger, is on the Foundation of Libraries.
Canadian Conservation Institute - With online catalogue.
Canadian Directory of Special Collections - National Library of Canada.
Cary Graphic Arts Collection - Library on printing history located at the Rochester Institute of Technology offers a Digital Image Database and the Bernard C. Middleton Collection of Books on the History and Practice of Bookbinding
Census of Italian 16th Century Editions - Editions printed in Italy between 1501 and 1600, in any language, and editions printed abroad in Italian.
Center for Book Arts - New York
Center for the Book in the Library of Congress - Provides links to Book-related organizations and programs and to Book Fairs and Literary Festivals.
CERL Thesaurus - Database created by the Consortium for European Research Libraries (CERL) "contains forms of imprint places, imprint names, and personal names as found in material printed before the middle of the nineteenth century � including variant spellings, forms in Latin and other languages, and fictitious names. The file has been created as a reference tool for bibliographers and scholars of the history of the book."
Chapitre - French used and rare books.
Christies International - Has a Books & Manuscripts department. The Private Library of William Foyle sold for a total of $19 million in London in July 2000, setting an auction record for a European private library.
Christina Foyle Obituary - Managing director of Foyle's, the celebrated Charing Cross Road bookshop. (From the Electronic Telegraph (UK), 12 June 1999.)
A Collector's Progress, or, Why I have 500 Copies of the Same Book - Presentation by Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. to the 1996 Annual General Meeting of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 29 March 1996.
Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEEC) - 85 digitized medieval manuscripts held by the Episcopal and Cathedral Library, Cologne.
Colophon - Modern illustrated and Fine Press books.
Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century - University of Delaware Library, Newark
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts - "Specializes in the treatment of art and historic artifacts on paper"
Conservation OnLine - Resources for Conservation Professionals. Has a collection of links to Lexical and Classification Resources consisting of "dictionaries, thesauri, classification schemes, and related matter primarily of use to those managing preservation libraries, imaging projects, etc."
Cornell Rare & Manuscript Collection - Has a subject directory. Highlights include papers and illustrations of Louis Agassiz Fuertes, Ezra Cornell Papers and the Fiske Icelandic Collection.
Cotsen Children's Library - Princeton University collection is "one of the great concentrations of primary source material (20,000 items), principally in the form of illustrated books, but including prints, drawings, manuscripts, games, puzzles, hornbooks, and toys, among a great many other objects. These range from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries in a variety of languages from French and German to Farsi and Urdu."
Czech Avant-Garde: European Art and Photography in Book Design, 1922-1940 - Exhibition in the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, of books and journals from the collection of Zdenek Primus.
Database of Book Bindings - British Library
DealTime - International book search engine and price comparison system which checks out prices, availability, shipping time and shipping costs of your book at over 40 online stores. Developed by Christopher Muenchoff and Christoph Janz, the database is searchable by title, author, keyword and ISBN, and includes audio books. Other bookstore comparison services include. (Formerly known as Acses and DealPilot.)
Denis Gouey Bookbinding Studio
Descriptive Bibliography: An On-Line Tutorial - Stephen Ramsay, Department of English, University of Virginia
Die Deutsche Bibliothek - Their Book Museum and Special Collections has online exhibitions including 100 Jahre Buntpapiersammlung Seegers and Sammlung Bartsch
Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts - British Library
Digital Catalogue of Watermarks and Type Ornaments Used by William Stansby in the Printing of The Workes of Benjamin Jonson - David L. Gants, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia.
Digital Library for the Decorative Arts and Material Culture - University of Wisconsin Madison. E-Facsimiles include Temple of Flora, or, Garden of the botanist, poet, painter, and philosopher (1812) by Robert Thornton (with with the spectacular Night-Blowing Cereus; or, Cactus Grandiflorus) and The Decoration of Houses (1898) by Edith Wharton.
Digital Scriptorium - Joint project of the Bancroft Library (UC Berkeley) and the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University to digitize the two universities' medieval and early Renaissance manuscript holdings. Currently comprising a database of over 4,000 images, the project will eventually contain some 10,000 images. Has a new Test Database search option. Sample images can be viewed by using the Display All Images for a Shelfmark. A search for the shelfmark Plimpton MS 034 retrieves images of a processional for female Franciscans. (Shelfmarks for Plimpton MS appear to range from 002 to 305.) To view descriptions of all manuscripts (warning: large file!) use Text Search Terms, leaving all options blank, and select Run.
Digitalisierte historische Kinderb�cher - German children's book digitization project. Books are listed by title and author. Among the 392 primarily German titles in the collection are a few in English: A book of nonsense by Edward Lear, The Baby's Own Aesop with illustrations by Walter Crane, Edmund Dulac's Fairy Book, and A Day in a Child's Life by Kate Greenaway.
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls - Stanford University Library
Duke University Special Collections Library
Dutch Antiquarian Booksellers' Association | Nederlandsche Vereeniging van Antiquaren NVvA
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University - 2,000 high resolution digital images of Celtic and other manuscripts from the collections of a number of University of Oxford Libraries. (To see the images you must click on I accept the conditions.)
Ebay: Books - Check the box that says search title and description. There is a section for Rare Books.
Enluminures - French government database (base de donn�es) has 16,810 online images of illuminated manuscripts. You can browse by author, title, subject, and type of decoration. One subject, for example, is Anges musiciens (angel musicians).
ExLibris Archives - "Electronic news and discussion group for those interested in rare books and special collections."
Esaupe: Sauvegarde du patrimoine - Association of libraries (bibliotheques) dedicated to safeguarding local history documents and manuscripts.
First Books by American Writers: 1786-1984 - Georgetown University Library, 1997.
Flora Danica Online - Danish National Library of Science and Medicine project to digitize 3240 folio-sized pictures of wild plants in Denmark from Flora Danica and provide a searchable database of plants. The Flora Danica porcelain dinner set, made between 1790 and 1802, consisted of 1802 pieces, of which 1500 survive. You can browse the images by plate number. Examples include Digitalis purpurea (foxglove), Dipsacus silvester (teasel) and Delphinium Consolida (larkspur).
Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association
Friends of Dard Hunter - "International organization with a diverse membership whose interests center around handmade paper and related arts and crafts."
FYI France: Book - Dealers in France - Jack Kessler
Gallica: Images et Texts du XIX Si�cle Francophone - Vast resource from the Biblioth�que Nationale de France digitizes books and images from the 19th century.
George A. Smathers Libraries' Department of Special Collections - Hightlights from this University of Florida site include Fore-edge Paintings, Eric Gill, John Buckland Wright and the P.K. Yonge Library of Florida History.
Georgia Antiquarian Booksellers Association
Getty Provenance Index Online Searchable Databases
Glasgow University Library Department of Special Collections - Exhibitions include British Bookbindings: 16th - 19th Century and Graphic Design and Visual Culture in Europe 1890-1945: Private Press Books in Special Collections.
Glory of Chinese Printing - Printing Museum of China
Goreyography: the works of Edward Gorey - "Graphical galleria of gratuitous Gorey, a continuous choreography of calamitous characters. Goreyography is also a resource for the collector and aficionado of the works of Edward Gorey. Bibliographical and biographical, Goreyography strives to deliver a comprehensive collection of information about Gorey's enigimatic genius."
Graphion's Online Type Museum
Grolier Club - "Founded in 1884, the Grolier Club of New York is America's oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts."
Guide to the microfiche collection of the Book Sales Catalogues of the Dutch Republic 1599-1800 - Elektronisch Tekst Centrum Leiden.
Guild of Book Workers - "Areas of interest include bookbinding, printing, conservation, marbling, calligraphy, and papermaking."
Gutenberg Bible - At least three are available online: G�ttinger Universit�t, Keio University and the British Library.
Gutenberg Homepage - Primarily in German. With information on the Gutenberg-Museum.
Handmade Paper - Sources include Carriage House Paper, Brooklyn, New York, Papeterie Saint-Gilles, Les �boulements, Saint-Joseph-de-la-Rive, Qu�bec and Museu Mol� Paperer de Capellades. See also Handmade Paper / B�ttenpapier, Dieter Freyer's collection of links to paper-making resources.
H. Bradley Martin - There is 12 page article by Abby Tallmer in American Exchange on the H. Bradley Martin Sale 1989-1990. It is No. 2 of the Historical Auction Series (July 2003) and can be located by searching within A.E. Monthly (not the Live Auctions). You can also locate the article in the Google cache. Sotheby's handled the nine-part sale, held from June 1989 to June 1990, and it brought in $35,719,750. Other sources on the sale and collection include Bound for Auction: H. Bradley Martin's $30 Million Collection by David Streitfeld; Washington Post, June 6, 1989; Library of 10,000 Rarities To Be Sold at Sotheby's, by Rita Reif, New York Times, December 21, 1988, p. C34; The World of Books from Auction Houses to Garage Sales, the Choices are Infinite, Heidi L. Berry, Washington Post, April 19, 1990; The Shortsighted Estatecraft of Bradley Martin, by Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post, June 12, 1989; High Prices for Martin Bird Books, by Judd Tully, Washington Post, June 9, 1989.
Handpress - Richard-Gabriel Rummonds provides information about handpress printing.
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center - University of Texas, Austin. Offers a Finding Aids to the HRC Manuscript Collection, with biographical sketeches and extensive information about the scope and contents of the collection. Provides access to UTNetCAT, a Web-browsable online catalog of the University of Texas at Austin, with access to "almost seven million items, including books, journals, Internet resources, microfilm, maps, music scores, audio and video recordings, manuscripts, and more."
Hay-on-Wye - Official homepage for this picuturesque town in Wales with 34 independent bookshops.
Heart of the Southwest: A Selective Bibliography of Novels, Stories and Tales Laid in Arizona and New Mexico & Adjacent Lands - By Lawrence Clark Powell. (Originally published in 1959 by Dawson's Book Shop.) Provided by the University of Arizona Library's Southwest Electronic Text Center, which has also digitized Powell's A Southwestern Century: A Bibliography of One Hundred Books of Non Fiction about the Southwest.
Herbals & Early Gardening Books from the Doris and Marc Patten Collection - Catalog of the collection includes images, listing by subject, author and title; Special Collections, Hayden Library, Arizona State University.
HoBo - The site formerly known as History of the Book @ Oxford is a "dedicated webspace for all History of the Book events and resources throughout the UK."
Hundred highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek - National Library of the Netherlands. With index. See also their collection of Bindings (Buitenlandse boekbanden).
Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens - San Marino, California.
Illinois! Illinois! An Annotated Bibliography of Fiction - 2233 item bibliography of fiction about Illinois. It is arranged by five chronological chapters covering pre-statehood years through 1997. There are author, title, and subject indexes.
Illustrated Garden: Rare Books from the Missouri Botanical Garden - Consists of 77 digitized volumes..."30,203 pages and 3,360 botanical illustrations currently [23 March 2005] online."
Illustrations for The Art Deco Book in France - From Gordon N. Ray's 1985 Lyell Lectures
Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts - Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library; 100 medieval manuscript images arranged by country, author, call number or date.
Impressions: 250 Years of Printing in the Lives of Canadians - Online exhibition on the role of printing in the lives of Canadians. Items exhibited are from the collections of the National Library of Canada and are grouped by themes. (See other NLC Digital Projects).
In Aedibus Aldi: the legacy of Aldux Manutius and his Press - Brigham Young University
Independent Online Booksellers Association (IOBA) - Offers a Member Directory, a glossary of Book Terminology and Description Definitions.
Information about the Book and Book Arts Community - Oak Knoll Books
Institut d'Histoire du Livre - Joint project of the Biblioth�que Municipale de Lyon, Mus�e de l'Imprimerie, Ecole des Chartes, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Biblioth�ques (ENSSIB), and Ecole Normale Superieure, Lettres et Sciences Humaines. Provides searchable databases of sales catalogs, book history web sites, book history workshops, calendar of book-related events, and a list of recent books. View a list of 317 Catalogue de ventes de livres anciens in the database of sales catalogs (select catalogue de vente in the genre pull-down menu). Dates range from the sale of the collection of the librarian Raphaelis Trichet du Fresne in 1662 to the sale of the library of M. Charles-Henri d'Autemarre Dervilli, chevalier de la Ligion d'Honneur in 1816.
International Association of Paper Historians
International Book Collectors Association - With a useful Guide to First Edition Identification by Glenn Larsen.
International Dunhuang Project - "View details of over 20,000 pre-eleventh century manuscripts and documents from the ancient towns of the Chinese Silk Roads. Full search facilities - by language, form, library number and subject - and high-quality colour images of over 1,000 manuscripts." (British Library Oriental and India Office Collections, which also has a Japanese Section and a Korean Section.)
International League of Antiquarian Booksellers - Their ILAB-LILA Database Search provides full text-searching for author and title, description, publisher (date and place), edition (any or first), dust jacket, and binding.
John Carter Brown Library - "One of the outstanding libraries of the world in the field of the history of the Americas, North and South, prior to ca. 1825, and of European history as it bears on the Americas..." With access to online catalog, Josiah.
Judging a Book by Its Cover: Gold-Stamped Publishers' Bindings of the 19th Century
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog - Access to the holdings of Germany's university libraries - more than 45 million books and serials. Try the German version if you encounter delays.
Knops Boekrestauratie - Conservation & restoration of books and paper.
Det Kongelige Bibliotek - Among the digital facsimiles of Medieval Manuscripts at the Danish Royal Library are 39 richly illustrated leaves from a Book of Hours with the title Heures de Charles de la maison de France, dernier Duc de Bourgogne. For example, for leaf 27, you can view the entire page (recto and verso) or view the illustration only (recto and verso). Digital images of Illustrated works consist of Astronomical Instruments of Tycho Brahe, Manuscripts from the S�ren Kierkegaard Archive, Quatorze images de la R�volution fran�aise, (with print no. 6 showing Charlotte Corday assassinating Marat), 23 Portraits of H. C. Andersen (1805-1875) and Treasures of the Royal Library.
Landmarks of American Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley - "Catalogue of an exhibition of rare books, manuscripts, maps, engravings, and photographs related to the literature of nature written about Western Virginia from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries, on view in the Tracy W. McGregor Room, Alderman Library, University of Virginia, 27 April - 14 July 1997."
Latin Place Names - "Contains most of the Latin place names contained in the imprint field of pre-1801 books in the catalogs of the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Huntington Library, and Brigham Young University, together with their modern English (AACR2R form) equivalent"; Bibliographic Standards Committee, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Association of College and Research Libraries. See Also: Names of printing towns from the Cathedral Libraries Catalogue, the CERL Thesaurus and the Orbis Latinus (1909) by J. G. Th. Graesse.
Leiden Centre for the Book
Lewis Walpole Library - Department of Yale University Library with "significant holdings of eighteenth-century English books, manuscripts, prints, drawings, watercolors and paintings. A leading non-circulating research library for English eighteenth-century studies and the prime source for the study of Horace Walpole, it was bequeathed to Yale by Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis, who devoted his life to collecting the letters and works of Horace Walpole, 1717-1797, and to editing the Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence..."
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web - Project of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, "this site features links to online exhibitions that have been created by libraries, archives, and historical societies, as well as to museum online exhibitions with a significant focus on library and archival materials."
Library Company of Philadelphia - Their searchable on-line catalogueWolfPAC, (named in honor of Edwin Wolf 2nd, 1911-1991, Librarian, Library Company of Philadelphia, 1953-1984) includes records for most of their Afro-Americana collection, and all of their 18th century British and American imprints. You can search for provenance in their notes field by looking for terms such as provenance, inscribed, bookplate, former owner or formerly owned in the MARC record.
Library of Congress Catalogs - Includes the Online Catalog, the Z39.50 Gateway, and the Experimental Search System (ESS) (no longer being maintained).
Library of Congress: American Special Collections
Library of Congress Information Bulletin - Library of Congress publication (with archives) has a number of articles of interest to book collectors including Rivers of America: Library Celebrates 60th Anniversary of Landmark Series, June 1997.
Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Reading Room - With an Illustrated Guide
Libweb: Library Servers via WWW - Thomas Dowling's list is updated daily and currently lists over 3,000 pages from libraries in over 90 countries.
Lib-web-cats: Library Web Pages, Online Catalogs, and System Profiles - Over 4,000 libraries worldwide. Maintained by Marshall Breeding, Technology Analyst for the Heard Library at Vanderbilt University.
Libri@ntichi: the european source for rare books - Italian search engine
Il Libro Antico - Universit� degli Studi di Udine
Lilly Library - Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Indiana University offers online exhibits including Fine Art of British Bookbinding and American History Documents and also allows you to search the manuscript collection.
Le livre de chasse de Gaston Ph�bus - Exposition virtuelle at the Biblioth�que nationale de France provides images from the manuscript, written between 1387 � 1389. Included are many scenes from the hunt, including the hunted (leopards, rabbits, deer, bears, boars) and the hunters (dogs, le veneur, le valet). Pages from the manuscript can also be viewed in the BNF's Le roi Charles V et son temps but the quality of the images is slightly inferior (compare wolves to wolves.)
Livres Rare Books - Pascal Chartier of Lyon, France provides a useful International Electronic Directory of Second-Hand Bookshops.
Maine Antiquarian Booksellers Association - Members are listed by individual bookseller, shop, town and specialty.
Making of America - "Digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection contains approximately 5,000 books and journal volumes with imprints between 1850 and 1877." Joint project of Cornell and the University of Michigan.
Marine Biological Laboratory - Woods Hole, Massachusetts. In the Library's Special Collections you'll find the full-text of Development of the Squid (1880) by W. K. Brooks, Medusae from the Maldive Islands (1904) by H. B. Bigelow and plates from Natuurkundige Verlustigingen (1778), Martinus Slabber's landmark book describing marine invertebrate larvae, plates from Atlas of the Voyage of the Astrolabe and Wandtafeln of Rudolph Leuckart (1822-1898) (teaching charts).
Marques d'impressor (Printers' devices) - University of Barcelona database of oved 600 printers' devices is searchable and browsable by printers' names. (Examples include Pedro Crasbeeck, Francisco Laso and Alessandro de' Vecchi.
MATEO - Mannheimer Texte Online - Universit�tsbibliothek Mannheim.
Memoria Digital Library - Provides addess to digitized Medieval manuscripts and Czech documents from the National Library of the Czech Republic. Contains over 30,000 records, including over 1500 digital documents. Try an advanced search for idNo XVI A 16 (Pra�sk� mis�l), an 823 page manuscript, fully digitized.
Milne Angling Collection - "One of the largest collections of angling literature in the United States. In the 1960s, Helena & Douglas Milne donated their collection of fishing books, periodicals, artwork and ephemera to the University of New Hampshire." Includes a helpful list of Fly Fishing Resources.
Miniature Books - Online exhibition from the Cushing Library, Texas A&M; University. Other exhibitions of interest to the book collector include Africa: Selections from the Rex B. Grey Collection, Autographs, Joy of Wood Engravings (Kent Kessinger), Fruits of a Research Collection and Selections from the A.W. Yeats Kipling Collection.
Milton Texts at Emory University
Monash University Library Rare Book Collection - Australian library has some interesting virtual exhibitions including AIDS with a catalogue; The Occult, with a catalogue; Sexpectations: Single White Females, with a catalogue; and The Restoration: 1660-1700, with a catalogue.
Morgan Library - Located in New York and originally the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan, this New York library and museum has an outstanding collection of illuminated, literary, and historical manuscripts; early printed books; old master drawings and prints, early children's books, music manuscripts and Americana. Corsair, their online catalog, provides access to "over 200,000 records for medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, books, literary and historical manuscripts, music scores, ancient seals and tablets, drawings, prints, and art objects." Many records contain content description of letters, information on provenance, and description of bindings.
Mosher Press - Developed by Phil Bishop and Scott Anderson, hosted by Millersville University. Most recent publication: Books Printed on Vellum in the United States: A Tentative List and Work-In-Progress.
The Most of Special Collections - 21 categories of the most rare, important, peculiar, or deplorable items in the collections. (Special Collections Department of the University of Virginia Library.)
Movable Book Society
Le Mus�e de l'imprimerie de Lyon
Museu Mol� Paperer de Capellades
National Art Library - "Major reference library and the Victoria and Albert Museum's curatorial department for the art, craft and design of the book."
National Diet Library - Japan's national library, located in Tokyo. The Rare Books department section is unfortunately only available in Japanese, but it is well worth exploring just for the images. There are 100 items in an online exhibition of books from the collection, which includes Japanese items and a number of non-Japanese works from around the world. (See Maps 1, 2, 3 and 4.) Included in the exhibition are works (with images) by Redoute, John Gould, Salisbury as well as the title page from the Kelmscott Chaucer. A large number of images of Japanese prints are also included, with some scrolls in Shockwave (requires plug-in).
National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC) - Library of Congress. To find records in the Morgan Library collection, for example, search for Pierpont Morgan Library [as Author-Corporate Name, Phrase].
New York Public Library Rare Books and Manuscripts Division
New York Antiquarian Book Fair
Newberry Library - Chicago. Catalog covers material acquired since 1978, comprising about 10-15% of the collections.
Nicholas Basbanes Interview - Transcript from October 15, 1995 Booknotes interview of the author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes, and the Eternal Passion for Books.
Notes on Rare Books - 543 columns by Philip Brooks appeared in the New York Times from September 18, 1932 to August 29, 1943. The series, Notes on Rare Books, actually began running on May 25, 1924. A search for notes on rare books as a document title in the subscription database ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851 - 2001) retrieves 954 documents.
Oak Knoll Books - Specialists in Books About Books
Octavo: Digital Rare Books - "Preserves rare books and manuscripts using advanced digital tools and formats."
Paper, Leather, Clay, & Stone: The Written Word Materialized - Cornell University
Philobiblon Club - Philadelphia'club for book collectors and booksellers. Some of the lectures given at the Club are available online including My Life With Books by Fred Schreiber, Is There a Future for Special Collections? by Daniel Traister and History of William H. Allen, Bookseller, 1918-1997 by George Allen.
Pop Goes the Page: Movable and Mechanical Books from the Brenda Forman Collection - Exhibition at the Special Collections Department of the University of Virginia Library is organized by artist (Lothar Meggendorfer, Ernest Nister, Voitech Kubasta), genre (Space, Contemporary), format (Tableau, Pop Up, Rivet Books, Slats, Tabs, Cards) and series (Dean and Son, Showman, Bookano, Blue Ribbon Pleasure Books, Jolly Jump Ups).
Pop Up World of Ann Montanaro - Exhibition of pop up books at Rutgers.
Plantin-Moretus Museum - Antwerp museum dedicated to preserving the works of Christoffel Plantin, "printer-publisher in the second half of the sixteenth century and one of the greatest of all times." Has information on its collection.
Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual - Edited by Sherelyn Ogden, this is the third edtion, available online in its entirety, published by the Northeast Document Conservation Center in Andover, Massachusetts.
La Preuve par les fleurons? Analyse compar�e du mat�riel ornemental des imprimeurs suisses romands 1775-1785 - Silvio Corsini. This collection of printers' ornaments is organized by size. See also the Banque internationale d'ornements d'imprimerie / International Bank of Printers' Ornaments
Princeton University Library Guide to Special Collections - "Oxford Companion style reference work presenting capsule summaries regarding holdings relevant to more than 250 topics." Developed by Steve Ferguson, the guide has an Index to all entries. You can search the MASC - Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections Database.
Printer's Devices - Database maintained by Jeffrey A. Barr, Rare Book section of the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida.
Private Passions, Public Legacy Paul Mellon's Personal Library at the University of Virginia
Professional Autograph Dealers Association
Proyecto Dioscorides - Images from early medical and scientific books at the Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense (Madrid).
Rare Book School - University of Virginia educational institute, located at the Book Arts Press (BAP), a bibliographical laboratory supporting various programs concerning the history of the book and related areas. Offers course Reading Lists. Terry Belanger moved the Book Arts Press and Rare Book School to the University of Virginia from the Columbia University School of Library Service in 1992.
Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) - Association of College and Research Libraries, American Library Association and maintained by Steve Ferguson, Princeton. Site highlights include Your Old Books: Frequently asked questions about rare books and book values, and the Tables of content for all issues of Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship from 1986-1999. The RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger was developed for the 1997 workshop "Internet Resources for Rare Book Cataloging" by Eric Holzenberg, Librarian of the Grolier Club and and Laurence Creider, University of Pennsylvania Library. The page for the RBMS Exhibition Awards Committee lists winners of the The Katharine Kyes Leab & Daniel J. Leab American Book Prices Current Exhibition Awards back to 1986.
Rare Book Review - "News magazine for the book world" edited by Crispin Jackson. (Original title: Antiquarian Book Monthly Review). One of the articles, Worcester source , by William Reese, describes the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts.
rec.collecting.books FAQ
Regional Alliance for Preservation - With Collections Care--Books links
Repositories of Primary Sources - Terry Abraham's listing of over "5,000 websites describing holdings of manuscripts, archives, rare books, historical photographs, and other primary sources for the research scholar."
Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking - Atlanta, Georgia
Rosenbach Museum & Library - Philadelphia museum of "rare books, manuscripts and fine and decorative arts, featuring a variety of exhibitions from its internationally known library and housed in a historic 19th-century mansion. The core of the library collection was assembled by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), the greatest dealer of rare books and manuscripts of modern times."
St Bride Printing Library - "World-famous collections cover printing and related subjects: paper and binding, graphic design and typography, typefaces and calligraphy, illustration and printmaking, publishing and book-selling, the social and economic aspects of the printing, book, newspaper and magazine trades." Access to library catalogue is provided at Bookhad, a project established to "to provide support for nationwide research activities in the fields of book history and book design."
Scottish Book Trade Index - Index of printers, publishers, booksellers, bookbinders, printmakers, stationers and papermakers based in Scotland, from the beginnings of Scottish printing to ca. 1850. In First Scottish Books are the digitized pages of Nine books printed by Chepman & Myllar. Provided by the National Library of Scotland.
Scottish Chapbook Project - University of South Carolina
SearchBiblio - Fast search and price comparison engine for used, rare, and out-of-print books.
Serif - the Magazine of Type & Typography
Seven Gables Bookshop, Inc. - Antiquarian book store located at 3. W. 46th St. in New York and run by Michael Papantonio and John S. Van E. Kohn. It ceased operations in 1979. A search of Columbia University's online catalog retrieves a description of Seven Gables' archives: "ca. 80,600 items (175 boxes, 23 correspondence file boxes) from Seven Gables Bookshop (New York, N.Y.). For additional information see A View Through the Transom by Hugh Macdonald, Windows, Texas Christian University Library Newsletter, Vol XI, No. 1, April 1999, and Seven Secrets of Collecting (And Then a Few More) by Sinclair Hitchings, an excerpt from a paper read at the Book Collectors' Workshop, sponsored by the Friends of the Dartmouth Library, on 7 May 1994 which appeared in the Dartmouth Library Bulletin, November 1995.
SHARP Web - Society for the History of Authorship Reading & Publishing site provides outstanding collection of links to resources on the history of publishing.
Shepherds Bookbinding - London
Shrink Wrap Project at Rutgers University Special Collections and Archives - Janice Stanitto, The Book and Paper Group Annual, Volume 12, 1993.
Skin Deep - Selections from J. Hewit & Sons bi-annual newsletter; includes introduction to the tanning process and procedures for identifying and treating various types of leather problems.
Smithsonian Institution Libraries Digital Collections - Project to issue digital editions of science, technology and natural history rare books has so far produced Prodromus in Systema Historicum Testaceorum (1795), Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum (1578), Astronomi� instaurat� mechanica (1602), Systema Saturnium (1659), Description Botanique du Chiranthodendron (1805) and Verzeichniss meiner Insecten-Sammlung (1796).
Society of Bookbinders - UK
Sotheby's
Special Collections Web Resources - Developed by Andrea Bean Hough and now maintained by Julie Grob, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Houston.
SPECTECH-L - "Forum for those interested in applying the capabilities of the Internet to the study and research of special collections materials." Hosted by the George A. Smathers Libraries of the University of Florida. Has membership list.
St. Bride Printing Library - London
Studies in Bibliography - Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia provides full-text access to the journal from 1948.
Studio Bibliografico L'Arengario - Gussago, Italia
Sublime Anxiety: the Gothic Family and the Outsider - Online exhibition of material from the Sadleir-Black Collection of Gothic Books, Department of Special Collections, University of Virginia Library. (Curated by Natalie Regensburg. )
Swann Galleries: Auctioneers and Appraisers - New York
Syndicat National de la Librarie Ancienne et Moderne - France's professional association of antiquarian booksellers
Textes Rares - Textes et images du XVIe au XIXe si�cles / Texts and pictures from the 16th to the 19th century.
Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive - With information on Gravell, the Wizard of Watermarks.
Tiny Tomes: the Charlotte M. Smith Collection of Miniature Books - Over 150 images with descriptive annotations from the University of Iowa Libraries
Toronto Centre for the Book
Tsukuba University Library Digital Collections - Japan
21 North Main - Used, rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books
Treasures of Keio University - Natural history books, Gutenberg Bible & Incunabula, European Illustrated Books & Manuscripts, Medieval manuscripts, Japanese maps and Japanese wood-block prints. (Keio University Digital Research Library.)
Twinrocker Papermaking Additives
Type Design, Typography and Graphic Images - Nicholas Fabian. Great Type Designers includes samples of typefaces by Hermann Zapf, Edward Benguiat, Adrian Frutiger and many others.
University of Alabama MFA in the Book Arts Program
University of Idaho Book Arts
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library - Colloquium Committee Lectures - Offers over 10 archived audio files of Lectures on librarianship in RealAudio including a 70 minute lecture on Further Adventures Among the Gently Mad by Nicholas Basbanes.
University of Iowa Center for the Book
University of Oxford Early Printed Books Project - "Foreign Books in Oxford Libraries."
Unofficial Index to Ilse Schunke's Die Schwenke-Sammlung - Compiled by Michael Laird and Paul Needham, the Schwenke-Sammlung, is vast archive of rubbings of gothic bookbindings assembled by Paul Schwenke, and now preserved at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
Verband Deutscher Antiquare E.V. - "Die Vereinigung von Buchantiquaren, Autographen- und Graphikh�ndlern."
Used Book Search - Allows you to Search 25 million used books worldwide.
Virtual Museum of the Printing Press - Luis Humberto Marcos, Porto, Portugal.
Voyages: A Smithsonian Libraries Exhibition - Exhibitioon of books from the Smithsonian Libraries. Consists of three sections: Journeys Over Land and Sea, Journeys of the Mind and Journeys of the Imagination. (See also The Pleasure of the Rare Book: Treasures from the Smithsonian Libraries, Smithsonian Magazine, May 2001.)
Webpage of the Roycrafters
Westward Bound: An Exhibition Celebrating Book Arts in the West - J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah Exhibtion
WHOLINK: Rare Books on Plague, Smallpox and Epidemiology - Full-text (in pdf format) of 13 titles in Latin, English, French and Italian published between 1518 to 1834. English titles include A discourse upon the Plague (1722) by Sir Richard Blackmore, A practical treatise of the plague (1720) by Joseph Brown, A scheme for Proper Methods to be taken (1721) by Sir John Colbatch.
William L. Clements Library - University of Michigan
William Gedney Photographs and Writing - This large collection, located at the Rare Book, Manuscript and Special Collections Library at Duke University and completely digitized, has a Writings section, in which can be found "a series of three books devoted to precisely describing, through words and illustrations, the methods and materials used in creating handmade books. Gedney began making books and book dummies in the mid 1950s, soon after graduating from the Pratt Institute of Art. Years later, as an instructor at Pratt, Gedney taught a course in bookmaking." Bookbinding Notes Book 1, 1977-1982, Bookbinding Notes Book 2, 1978-1984, Bookbinding Notes Book 3, 1982-ca. 1983 and Book Projects, 1981-1984 are detailed, illustrated and useful resources.
William Reese Company - New Haven firm offers a collection of Papers and Talks About Books and Book-Collecting given by Reese at Harvard, New York Public Library, the Grolier Club and the American Antiquarian Society.
Women in the Book Arts - Wellesley College Library
World Biographical Index - Database created by K.G. Saur Publishing and the Braunschweig University Library, "based on the 4th edition of the World Biographical Index containing over 2 million short biographical entries for eminent individuals who lived in North and South America, Western and Central Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania." Available in German and English.
WorldBookDealers - "Top antiquarian booksellers have come together under one banner to present over 200,000 expertly catalogued books." Provides "search engine, a wide selection of participating dealers' stock, dealer profiles, highlights of latest activities, acquisitions and catalogues, general news items and notices of events."
Worldcat - Catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide has over 47 million bibliographic records. Although this OCLC cooperative venture is primarily a subscription service accessible through FirstSearch at academic libraries, there is at least one alternate route. If you enter a nonsense title (try a combination of numbers and letters) on the search page at ABE Books you'll get this response No books match the given criteria. Find it at a local library. Clicking on this option will take you to an OCLC search page where you can search by title or ISBN.
Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875 - Collection of 19th century American fiction, as listed in Lyle Wright's bibliography which attempts to include every novel published in the United States from 1851 to 1875. Nearly 3,000 electronic texts are included. This is a P\project of the Indiana University Digital Library Program. There are at least two works of fiction with book collecting themes. The first is Robert Severne, His Friends and His Enemies (1867) by William Alexander Hammond, a novel of 369 pages. Chapter XI, starting on page 117, is summarized thus: "in which the hero and heroine meet for the first time, and in which the former indulges his bibliomaniacal propensity." The second is Scrope, or, The Lost Library: A Novel of New York and Hartford (1874) by Frederic B. Perkins.
Zentrales Verzeichnis Antiquarischer B�cher (ZVAB) - More than 10 million antiquarian books from over 1600 antiquarian book dealers all over the world.

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