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Compiled by Pasco and Jean Gasbarro We value your feedback and cheerfully welcome any suggestions you may have. We also want to keep this list as accurate and up-to-date as possible, so please contact us at pasco_gasbarro@yahoo.com with any corrections. Web sites are arranged below by category. The listing is also available by location. |
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| By Category |
| Bibliography - General | back to top |
| Bibliographical Society (United Kingdom) | |
| Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand | |
| Bibliographical Society of Canada | |
| Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia | |
| Bibliotheca Canadiana: A Historical Survey of Canadian Bibliography (McGill University Library) | |
| Cambridge Bibliographic Society | |
| Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside | |
| Center for Editorial and Intertextual Research | |
| Edinburgh Bibliographical Society | The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society claims to be the oldest continuing society of its kind. The founding meeting was held on 16 January 1890 when Archibald Constable was elected the first President. |
| Manchester Bibliographical Society | The Society is a group of book collectors and booksellers who meet monthly during the Winter in several different venues in Manchester. |
| NOBS, the Northern Ohio Bibliographic Society | |
| Oxford Bibliographical Society | |
| Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America | |
| Society for Textual Scholarship | |
| Studies in Bibliography | |
| Text | |
| Book Arts | back to top |
| A Digital Catalogue of Watermarks and Type Ornaments Used by William Standsby in the Printing of 'The Workes of Beniamin Jonson' (London: 1616) | |
| American Museum of Papermaking | The Museum features a remarkable collection of over 10,000 watermarks, papers, tools, machines, and manuscripts. |
| Binding Time and Space | |
| British Association of Paper Historians | This is a national association which aims to bring together individuals, companies and institutions with a common interest in the following areas: paper in all its forms and diversity, papermaking by hand and machine, conservation, mill histories. |
| Enduring Legacy of Paper Bindings, The | |
| Graphic Design: Typography | |
| Guild of Book Workers | A national non-profit organization for all the book arts. Founded in 1906, the Guild currently has over 1000 members worldwide. Areas of interest include bookbinding, printing, conservation, marbling, calligraphy, and papermaking. |
| International Association of Paper Historians | The IPH integrates professionals of different branches and all friends of paper within the field of paper history. |
| Thomas L. Gravell Watermark Archive | |
| University of Virginia Book Arts Press | RBS carries on exhibition and publication programs under the Book Arts Press imprint, and it sponsors public lectures -- notably the annual Sol. M. Malkin Lecture in Bibliography. |
| Wove Paper: A Turning Point in the History of Papermaking | |
| Book History | back to top |
| 19th-Century Schoolbooks: A Demonstration Project (Digital Research Library) | |
| A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek | Features Mediaeval manuscripts and illumination, Block books and incunabula, Alba amicorum, Engravings, Woodcuts, Lithographs, and Drawings. |
| American Bestsellers and Their Movies | |
| American Literary Circles: The Atlantic Monthly Circle | |
| American Literary Genres: The Bestseller | |
| American Literary Magazines of the Nineteenth Century | |
| Authority of the Word: Books, Culture and Society in Europe and the United States | |
| Authorship, Collaboration, and Literary Property | |
| Authorship, Publishing, and the Production of Romantic Poetry, 1785-1800 | |
| Bibliography for Western Book History | |
| Book as Technology and Trope, The | |
| Book Collector, The | |
| Book History Online: An International Bibliography | |
| Book History, SHARP's new journal seeks submissions | |
| Book in Western Culture, The | |
| BOOKHAD, research library support for book history and design (UK) | |
| Books Go to War: Armed Services Editions in WWII | This is the virtual catalog of an exhibition held between 20 April and 10 September, 1996 in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia. |
| Chapbook Collection at Lilly Library, Indiana University | |
| Color Printing in the 19th Century | Among the books on exhibit are the two masterworks of the nature painter John James Audubon, The Birds of America and The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, the charming children's books of Kate Greenaway and Walter Crane. |
| Culture of the Book, The | |
| Cultures of the Book | |
| Discipline del libro | |
| DScriptorium Digital Manuscript Archive | |
| Duke Papyrus Archive | The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt. The target audience: papyrologists, historians, archaeologists, biblical scholars, classicists, Coptologists, Egyptologists. |
| Early Manuscripts at Oxford University | This site provides access to over 80 early manuscripts now in institutions associated with the University of Oxford. |
| Feminism and Writing Technologies | |
| History o fBooks and Printing, 1800-1950 | |
| History of Reading | |
| History of the Book | |
| History of the Book | |
| History of the Book | |
| History of the Book | |
| History of the Book @ Oxford (HoBo) | HoBo currently aims to provide comprehensive coverage of all UK seminars, lectures and conferences related to the history of the book; it also includes some European and (in the case of the annual SHARP conferences) American events. |
| History of the Book and Its Forms, The | |
| History of the Irish Book Project | Summaries of the 5 volume history. |
| Illuminated Manuscripts at the Bodleian | About a thousand images can be reached from this page, arranged by century and country of origin. |
| Illustrated Book, 1780-1830, The | The Library is grateful to be able to exhibit some of the highlights from the collection of Harris N. Hollin, books with hand-colored plates, covering a wide range of subjects, from the comic, to travel, views, birds, flowers and architecture. |
| Information Revolutions | |
| Is it a Book? | |
| Journal of the Early Book Society | |
| Keepsake for 1829, The | This site reproduces several works from The Keepsake for 1829: Letitia Elizabeth Landon's "Verses," the engraving of Edwin Landseer's painting Georgiana, to which Landon's poems refers, William Wordsworth's "The Country Girl". |
| Literacy and Technology | |
| NYPL Research Guide for Book History (bibliography) | |
| Popular Fictions: Bestsellers from the Greeks to Grisham | |
| Print, Literacy & Powerin America to 1900 | |
| Profession of Authorship in 19th-Century America, The | |
| Rhetorics of Print/Digital Culture, The | |
| Shakespeare and the Material Book | |
| Street Ballads | |
| Technologies of the Word | |
| Tiny Tomes: The Charlotte M. Smith Collection of Miniature Books | |
| Topics inthe History of Books and Printing, 1400-1800 | |
| Transitions in Media: Manuscript to Print, 1450. Print to Digital, Today. | |
| Victorian Periodicals and Their Readers | |
| Victorian Studies: Illustrated Periodicals, syllabus, and bibliography | |
| Wonderful World of Pop-Up and Movable Books, 1811-1996, The | 19th and 20th Century doll, movable and pop-up books. |
| Booksellers | back to top |
| Amazon | |
| American Book Prices Current | |
| Antiquarian Book Network | |
| Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America | |
| Barnes and Noble | |
| Bibliophile Bookshelf | |
| Books and Book Collecting | |
| Books and Book Collecting | |
| Books Online | |
| Books-Rare | |
| Borders | |
| International League of Antiquarian Booksellers / Ligue Internationale de la Librairie Ancienne (ILAB-LILA) | |
| Internet Bookshop | |
| Oak Knoll Books | |
| Sheila Markham Rare Books | |
| Centers for the Book | back to top |
| Alaska Center for the Book | |
| Arizona Center for the Book | |
| Center for the Book in the Library of Congress | The Center for the Book was established in 1977 to use the resources and prestige of the Library of Congress to promote books, reading, libraries, and literacy. |
| Centre for the Book - Australia | In 1997 LISWA established Australia's first Centre for the Book situated on the ground floor of the Alexander Library Building. |
| Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh | THE CHB was established in 1995 as an international and interdisciplinary centre for advanced research into all aspects of the material culture of the text - its production, circulation, and reception from manuscript to the electronic text. |
| Colorado Center for the Book | |
| Idaho Center for the Book | |
| Minnesota Center for the Book | |
| Ohio Center for the Book | |
| Oregon Center for the Book | |
| Oxford University's Early Printed Books Project | |
| Penn State Center for the Book | The Penn State Series in the History of the Book publishes books that employ a mixture of approaches: historical, archival, biographical, critical, sociological, and economic. |
| Scottish Centre for the Book, Napier University | |
| Toronto Centre for the Book | |
| University of Iowa Center for the Book | The University of Iowa Center for the Book represents a community of faculty, staff, students, and local book specialists with diverse interests in all facets of book production, distribution, and use. |
| University of Iowa Center for the Book | |
| Discussions | back to top |
| BIBSOCAN | |
| Book_Arts-L | |
| J-HISTORY (Journalism History) | Jhistory, founded in August, 1994, is a forum for discussions, with professors, graduate students and professionals debating and exploring journalism history topics. Some of the top historians of journalism and mass communication participate. |
| SHARP-L | |
| Libraries - Research | back to top |
| Beinecke Library, Yale University | The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for early manuscripts and rare books in the fields of literature, theology, history, and the natural sciences. |
| Bodleian Library | The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford. It is also a copyright deposit library and its collections are used by scholars from around the world. |
| British Library | The British Library is one of the world's great knowledge institutions. It holds over 150 million items from every age of global civilisation, from historical documents to the latest information for business and research. |
| Consortium of European Research Libraries | |
| Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin | The principal rare books and manuscripts library of The University of Texas at Austin, it contains 35 million manuscripts, 1 million books, 5 million photographs, over 100,000 works of art, and important collections on performing arts. |
| Harvard University Library | The Harvard library system is the oldest in the United States and the largest academic library in the world. Books, manuscripts, microforms, maps, slides, photographs, and other materials are housed in more than 90 individual collections. |
| Huntington Library and Art Gallery | A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by railroad and real estate developer Henry Edwards Huntington and opened to the public in 1928. |
| John Rylands University Library | There are now over 4,000 Incunabula in the Library, most of which date from between 1455 and 1480, representing more than 500 European presses, some being the only known copies |
| Library of Congress | The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people. |
| Lilly Library at Indiana University | |
| McFarlin Library at University of Tulsa | Abstracted from one of the collection lists of the McFarlin Library at the University of Tulsa, which contain significant information about publishers and publishing but which are not, strictly speaking, publisher's archives. |
| New York Public Library | The world's premier circulating public library and research library. |
| Princeton University Library Rare Books and Special Collections | This site contains a comprehensive range of information concerning the collections, policies, and activities of the Department. |
| Reading University Library Collections | The Library has a large number of Special Collections of rare books, manuscripts, archives and other materials. |
| Rosenbach Museum and Library | |
| St Bride Printing Library, London | |
| University of Illinois Rare Book and Special Collections Library | The Rare Book and Special Collections Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the main repository for rare books, manuscripts and special collections for the library system. |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Rare Book Collection at Wilson Library | The Rare Book Collection (RBC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill began in 1929 with the gift of 400 incunabula by the Hanes Family. Collection includes ancient clay tablets, medieval manuscripts, 16th-century printers imprints. |
| University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center | |
| Library History | back to top |
| Archives of the American Library Association | |
| Bodleian Library: A Brief History | |
| History of Libraries and Print Culture | |
| H-LIS Discussion Network (library history) | |
| IFLA Round Table on Library History | |
| International Dictionary of Library Histories seeks additional contributors | |
| Libraries and Culture | |
| Libraries Today (Canadian library history) | |
| Library History | |
| Library History Database: British Isles to 1850 (Robin Alston) | |
| Library History Group (Great Britain) | |
| Library History Roundtable (ALA) | |
| Library History Roundtable Bibliographies | |
| Library, The | |
| Library, The (information about) | |
| Notices and Calls for Papers | back to top |
| BIBLIOPOLIS, researching Dutch book history | |
| Book History | |
| Book History Program, Erlangen University | |
| Books and Empire, University of Sydney, January 30 to February 1, 2003, CFP | |
| City and the Book: International Congress in Florence, September 2002 | |
| Edinburgh Book History Seminar, 2001-2002 schedule | |
| Future History of the Book: Bibliopolis Conference, The Hague, November 2002 | |
| Graduate Program in Book History at University of Toronto | |
| Graduate Student Essay Prize offered by the editors of | |
| MA in the History of the Book Institute of English Studies, University of London | |
| Rare Book School at the University of Virginia | |
| Reading Experience Database, charting the history of reading in Britain, 1450-1914 | |
| Other | back to top |
| Biases of the Ear and Eye, Daniel Chandler | |
| Cardiff Corvey | |
| Convergence: A Journal of Research into New Media | Convergence is a refereed academic paper journal which addresses the creative, social, political and pedagogical issues raised by the advent of new media technologies. |
| Printing History | back to top |
| A Medieval Blockbook | There are both manuscript and printed versions of these illustrated texts. The version presented here is meant specifically to give a modern reader an immediate experience of these books. |
| American Journalism Historians Association | The American Journalism Historians Association was founded in 1981 by journalism history professors seeking to share their research and ideas. |
| American Newspaper Repository, The | We have about five thousand newspaper volumes, most of which came, directly or indirectly, from the British Library. Notable long runs include the New York World, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune. |
| American Periodicals | |
| Art of the Book, The | |
| Association for Documentary Editing | |
| British Library Newspaper Archives at Colindale, a brief guide | The British Newspaper Library is located in Colindale, London NW9. Part of the British Library, it is the home of the national archive collection of newspapers. |
| Broadsides Collection at the John Hay Library | |
| Cary Graphic Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology | |
| Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America | Its objective is to help determine the historical sociology of print in modern America in all its culturally diverse manifestations. |
| Concise History of the British Newspaper since 1620 | |
| Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas | Most of the books, manuscripts, illustrations, and maps shown here were printed in Europe: produced by Europeans for Europeans. |
| Directory of Cartoon Research Libraries | |
| Early Book Society | Founded as an independent entity in 1987, the society was formed to bring together all those who are interested in any aspect of the study of manuscripts and early printed books. |
| Early Printed Books Project, University of Oxford | The project began in June 1995 with funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. |
| German Book Illustration of the 15th Century | |
| Graphion's Online Type Museum | |
| He who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe | |
| Historical Manuscripts Commission: Sources for British Newspaper History, NRA guide | Briefly describes the unpublished sources noted in the National Register of Archives (NRA), the principal relevant repositories with strong collections relating to the history of the press, other useful links and general works of reference. |
| Impressions: 250 Years of Printing in the Lives of Canadians (National Library of Canada) | |
| Infancy of Printing at the Golda Meier Library | |
| Internet Library of Early Journals Project | ILEJ, the "Internet Library of Early Journals" was a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. |
| Journal of the Printing Historical Society | |
| Journalism History | |
| Journalist as Novelist: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America | |
| Legacy of Aldus Manutius and His Press, The | In 1995 the Friends of the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University published In aedibus Aldi: the legacy of Aldus Manutius and his press. This catalog accompanied the exhibition. |
| Letterpress Museum at Briar Press | |
| Life of Thomas Gent, Printer of York, The | |
| Linotype & Linotipisti | Linotype & Linotipisti is a window open to all who have known the old printing shops, to air their testimony and recollections in order to keep alive the memory of that mythical machine and of that old romantic profession. |
| London Book Trade: Topographies of Print, St Bride's Printing Library | |
| Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World | |
| Media History Monographs | |
| Melbourne Museum of Printing | Australia's working and teaching museum of typography and printing located at Footscray, Victoria. Specialising in retention of letterpress, both the equipment and the knowledge. |
| Mosher Press, The | |
| MuseuVirtual da Imprensa (Porto, Portugal) | |
| Octavo Marginalia | Articles covering design and construction of books, languages in which they were written, challenges of conservation. |
| Penny Magazine, The | |
| Printing Historical Society (United Kingdom) | Founded in London in 1964, the Society fosters interest in the history of printing and encourages both the study and the preservation of printing machinery, records, and equipment of historical value. |
| Printing History | |
| Printing: Renaissance and Reformation | |
| Publishing History | |
| PUNCH: A History Project | |
| Research Society for American Periodicals | The RSAP is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars interested in American magazines and newspapers. It publishes the journal American Periodicals and the RSAP Newsletter. |
| Research Society for Victorian Periodicals | THE RESEARCH Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) was founded in 1968 to foster interdisciplinary scholarship on the Victorian periodical press. |
| Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records | The aim of the SAPPHIRE Project is to record the social, economic and cultural history of the Scottish printing and publishing industry in the twentieth century. |
| Scottish Book Trade Index, National Library of Scotland | |
| SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing | |
| Victorian Periodicals and the Empire | These volumes from the Yale Library's collections are chosen to suggest the chronological range, geographical scope, and topical variety of the periodical press's treatment of the British Empire during the reign of Queen Victoria. |
| Victorian Periodicals Review | |
| William Hogarth and 18th-Century Print Culture | |
| William Morris Society | Founded in London in 1955, the Society aims to make the life and work of Morris and his associates better known. Its programs include lectures, conferences, tours, museum visits, and social gatherings. |
| Projects, Resources, and Scholarly Societies | back to top |
| 19th-c. Books on Publishing and the Book Trade | |
| American Printing History Association | The American Printing History Association was founded in 1974 to encourage the study of printing history and its related arts and skills, including calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and publishing. |
| Association for the Recording and Reconstruction of Historical Bookbindings | |
| Bibliographical Society of America | |
| Book History and Literacies at Minnesota | Faculty members, graduate students, and other associates at the University of Minnesota have advanced research in areas related to book history as well as to cultural and social conditions for literacy. This site documents some of their work. |
| Book History Timetable | |
| Book Sales Catalogues of the Dutch Republic, 1599-1800 | |
| Book Trade History Group (UK) | |
| Bookdealer Interviews, The | |
| British Periodicals at Minnesota: The Early 19th Century | The University of Minnesota Libraries hold a relatively strong collection of nineteenth-century periodicals. The following handlist reports many periodicals that began publication in Great Britain between 1801 and 1850. |
| Cambridge Project for the Book Trust | |
| Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, Institute of English Studies, U of London | |
| Centre for Writing, Publishing, and Reading History, University of Reading | |
| Chronology of French publishing in the 20th century | |
| Digital Scriptorium | |
| Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 | The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA) presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. |
| Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History | This website makes available information on the London and provincial book trades which has been gathered intermittently since the 1970s. |
| Grolier Club | |
| Gutenberg Institute for the History of the Book | |
| Hand Press Book (HPB) Database | The HPB Database is a steadily growing collection of separate files of catalogue records from many libraries and collections covering items of European printing of the hand-press period (c. 1455-1830) integrated into one file. |
| History of Reading Special Interest Group (HRSIG) | |
| History of the Book in Australia | |
| History of the Book in Estonia | |
| History of the Book in Scotland | |
| Il libro antico | |
| Image of France | |
| Institut d'histoire du livre, Lyons | |
| Leiden Centre for the Book | |
| London Book Trades Project: Researching 18th-c. London Book Production | |
| National Print Museum of Ireland | |
| Print Culture History in Modern America | |
| Print Culture in New Zealand: The Otago Project | |
| Printing Historical Collections, London College of Printing | |
| Program in the History of the Book in American Culture, American Antiquarian Society | The American Antiquarian Society's Program in the History of the Book in American Culture, established in 1983, is rooted in the research collections of AAS and its commitment to the history and bibliography of the printing, publication, and books. |
| Recent and Current ASECS/SHARP Projects in 18th-c. print culture | |
| Recent Studies of 18th-c. Book History: A Checklist | |
| Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts | |
| Spectator Project: A Hypermedia Research Archive of 18th-c. Periodicals | The Spectator Project is an interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), and the eighteenth-century periodical in general. |
| Stationers Hall Copyright Records (PRO guide) | |
| Stationers Hall, London | |
| Textbook Colloquium | |
| Traditions of the Book, 1300-1600 | |
| Urban Manuscripts Project (Center for Medieval Studies at University of York) | |
| Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies | The Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies (WAGPCS) aims to provide a regular, monthly forum for those interested in book history and print culture studies and welcomes the participation of everyone interested in print culture. |
| Women Printers and Booksellers: A Checklist of Sources | |
| Women Printers in Great Britain, 1475-1700 | |
| World of the Renaissance Print Shop, The | |
| Publishers | back to top |
| American Association of University Presses | |
| Book Industry Study Group | Gathers statistical information about the book market, suppliers and distributors, current sales to calculate and analyze industry trends. Creates and sets EDI standards for organizing and coding books. Manages On-Line Information Exchange (ONIX). |
| Cambridge University Press | |
| Columbia University Press | |
| Duke University Press | |
| Harvard University Press | |
| John Wiley & Sons | The company was founded in 1807, during the Jefferson presidency. In the early years, Wiley was best known for the works of Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and other 19th century American literary giants. |
| Johns Hopkins University Press | |
| Oak Knoll Press | |
| Oxford University Press | |
| Penguin Books | |
| Princeton University Press | |
| Publishers' Catalogues | |
| Random House | |
| Routledge Press | |
| Stanford University Press | Over the last 75 years, Stanford University Press has established a reputation as one the nation's leading publishers of scholarly books. |
| University of California Press | The University of California Press was established in 1893 to distribute research papers of the University of California faculty by exchanging them for papers from other universities. Today the Press is a major cultural institution. |
| University of Chicago Press | The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest of the American university presses. The Press was founded in 1892 as a division of the then newly-established University of Chicago. |
| University of Michigan Press | The University of Michigan Press seeks to transmit knowledge throughout the academic community and beyond by the publication of well-chosen works of high merit. |
| University Press of Virginia | The University of Virginia Press was founded in 1963 to advance the intellectual interests not only of the University of Virginia, but of institutions of higher learning throughout the state |
| W. W. Norton | |
| Yale University Press | From the distance of nine decades the Yale University Press, a separately endowed department of the University with its own Board of Governors, has realized the hope of its founders that it become a university extension. |
| Publishers' Records: Finding Lists and Special Collections | back to top |
| Canadian Publishers' Records Database | Contains information about location of publishers' records (offices, archives, institutions), scope and content of records, and biographical sketches and administrative histories of the publishing houses, authors and individuals who created them. |
| Historical Manuscripts Commission Accessions to Repositories | Collects information from over two hundred record repositories throughout the British Isles about manuscript accessions received in the previous twelve months. This information is added to the indexes to the National Register of Archives. |
| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Am. & Brit.) | |
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