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Newsgroups and on-line mailing lists

Biblio - a book trade discussion group. Subscribe by emailing to biblio-request@smartlink.net. Leave the subject line blank and put only the word subscribe in the body of your message.

Book Arts-L - a mailing list for bookbinders, printers and other book art related areas.To subscribe, send an email with no subject and only the command "subscribe book_arts-l (insert your name here)" in the message body to listserv@listserv.syr.edu

Conservation DistList - for professionals involved with conservaton and archives. But you can access their archives. To subscribe, send a subscription request to consdist-request@lindy.stanford.edu

ExLibris - a discussion group for rare book librarians, but with collector and dealer involvement, although no on-line selling of books is allowed. To join, send an email with no subject and only the command "SUBSCRIBE EXLIBRIS (INSERT YOUR NAME HERE)" to listproc@library.berkeley.edu

Interloc - subscription based service only. Their are open access archives. To subscribe, send an email to interloc-request@smartlink.net. Leave the subject line blank and put only the word subscribe in the body.

Lis-Rarebooks - just limited to discussions on rare books librarianship. To subscribe, send an email with only the message "join lis-rarebooks (insert your name here)" to mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk

LetPress - for discussion of printing and letterpress. To subscribe, send an email with the message "subscribe letpress (insert your name here) to listserv@unb.ca

SHARP-L - Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing. To subscribe, send an email with only the following text, "SUB SHARP-L (your name)" to listserv@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu

Typo-L - aimed at those interested in type and typography. To subscribe, send an email with the message "subscribe typo-l (insert your name here) to listserv@irlearn.ucd.ie

Art

Art Price Index

Getty Art Resource

Getty Center for the History of Art Query Form

Authors

Beckford, William

Morris, William.

Oxenham, Elsie J.

Sterne, Laurence

The Bible

Bible Search on-line

Bibliography and history of the book

Stephen Ramsay Descriptive bibliography online tutorial

Dan Traister Resources for the history of the book and printing

Jack Lynch

Bibliographical Societies

The Bibliographical Society

Bibliographical Society of America

Bibliographical Society of Canada

Binding

American Academy of Bookbinding
Tini Miura, PO Box 1590, Telluride CO 81435. USA. Tel: 001 303 728-3886

Association for the Recording and Reconstruction of Historical Bookbindings

Bookbinding Dictionary

Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild.

Designer Bookbinders - Professional fine bookbinders.
contact: 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, U.K.

The Enduring Legacy of Paper Bindings: A small exhibition of paper bindings from the special collections of the Fales Library in NYU's Bobst Library, accompanying the Spring 1998 Barbara Goldsmith Preservation Lecture entitled The Enduring Legacy of Paper Bindings: Historical Review and Preservation Concerns, given by Michèle Cloonan at the Fales Library on April 30, 1998.

The Fine Art of British Bookbinding: An exhibition of the Lilly Library, Indiana University, featuring the work of William Matthews, Gemma O'Connor, John Plummer, Angela James, Arthur Johnson, Edgar Mansfield, and Roger Powell.

Finnish Designer Bookbinders / JACOB GRANSTROEM-SOCIETY and Tyrvaeae School of Art and Design: Beautiful exhibition of contemporary design binding by fine binders from throughout Scandinavia and Europe.

Bookselling and Collecting

The Clique

Robert F. Lucas The essentials of book collecting (essay)

Trussel's Books and Book Collecting

Bookplates

American Society of Bookplate Collectors & Designers.
contact: 605 N. Stoneman Avenue, #F, Alhambra CA 91801, USA.

Cataloguing

Library Corporation Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books

Cataloguer's toolbox

Chess

Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana Chess & Draughts collection

Children's Books

Cotsen Children's Library - Princeton University

The Art of Illustration:Contemporary Canadian children's book illustration.

The Great Menagerie: The Wonderful World of Pop-Up and Movable Books, 1811-1996: An exhibition at the University of North Texas Library.

Colour

The Faber Birren Collection of Books on Colour

Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century - University of Delaware Library, Newark

Conservation

Association of American Archivists

Book Repair - Procedures and Treatments Used for Book Repair and Pamphlet Binding.

Conservation OnLine, Stanford University

Knops Boekrestauratie - Conservation & restoration of books & paper

Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual - ed.Sherelyn Ogden.

Regional Alliance for Preservation (RAP) - a new centralized
source for information and education on collections conservation and
preservation

Eighteenth Century

American Society for 18^th Century Studies

Lewis Walpole Library

Recent Studies in 18th Century Book History

Selected Readings, the online running bibliography of recent articles and books on
all subjects pertaining the the long eighteenth century across the disciplines.

William Beckford

Ephemera

Ephemera Society of America
contact: Bradley Calvert, PO Box 95, Cazenovia NY 13035. USA. Phone 001 (315) 655-2810

French bibliographical terms

Petit glossaire du bibliophile et de l'amateur de livres.

French bibliographical abbreviations

Latin place names

English to Latin word search tool

Graesse

RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee

Librarians professional associations

American Library Association Rare Books and Manuscripts Group

Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship - index

The Library Association (UK) Rare Books Group

Liblink - MCB University Press is offering the unique opportunity to register your
research on their Library and Information Services Internet Research
Register. The register will build up into an invaluable resource, enabling
the history of research in a particular field to be tracked

Libraries catalogues and databases

British Library

British Library OPAC 97

BLAISE

British Library - Map Collection

British Library Newspaper Collection

Bibliotheque Nationale de France - (English version)

BN-OPALE PLUS : ( Interface available in English) Books and inherited periodicals from the beginnings of printing to these days, making up over 6 millions volumes. (François-Mitterrand site /Tolbiac et Richelieu site).

Catalogue of the open access collection (Le Catalogue des imprimés en libre-accès) : books and periodicals, to be found in the reading rooms (about 430 000 volumes). (François-Mitterrand at both levels)

Catalogue of digitized documents (Le catalogue des documents numérisés) : books, periodicals and digitized images . About 80 000 entries, among which 45 000 out of copyright

Cambridge University Library

COPAC - UK libraries union catalogue

Folger Shakespeare Library database (HAMNET)

Gabriel, information service for the National Libraries of Europe

Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog , a union catalogue of German and other libraries

Library of Congress

Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web: - links to numerous book arts, library and archival exhibitions online.

Music Libraries On-Line

National Library catalogues worldwide

National Library of Ireland

National Library of Scotland

National Library of Wales

OCLC subscriptions

OPACS

Repositories of Primary Sources (over 3,600 links)

RLIN subscriptions

Science Museum (London)

Special Collections on the Web (from Univ. of Houston)

Telnet sites (not kept up to date but still useful

UK Higher Education and Research Libraries 

UK Public Libraries

Web catalogues

Library history

150 Years of Public Libraries

British Library Journal

British Library Newspaper Library

HoBo (re-named site for The History of the Book)

IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)

IFLA Round Table on Library History

Librariana archives of Boise State University

Libraries and culture,

The Library Association

Library History Database

Library History Group

Library History Round Table of the American Library Association

Local Studies Group of The Library Association

Newspaper history from the British Library Newspaper Library

Rare Books Group of The Library Association

SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing)

Welcome to libraries

Manuscripts

Early Manuscripts at Oxford University

Historical Manuscripts Commission (UK)

Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts - Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library

Manuscript Society.
contact: David R. Smith, Executive Director, 350 N. Nigara Street, Burbank CA 91505. USA.

Stephen R. Reimer, University of Alberta

Manuscripts and Incunabula Collection - Stadt- und Universitaetsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Maps

British Library Map Collection
Map & Cartography History - the Gateway

Medical books

ALHHS - Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences

Miniature Books

Tiny Tomes: The Charlotte M. Smith Collection of Miniature Books: an exhibition of minature books from the University of Iowa Library

Music

Music Libraries On-Line

Natural History

Animal, Vegetable and Mineral: Natural History Books by Ten Authors - Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University.

Fishing - Milne Angling Collection

Flora Danica Online - Danish National Library of Science and Medicine

Herbals & Early Gardening Books - the Doris and Marc Patten Collection

Hunt Institute

Papermaking & Watermarks

British Association of Paper Historians
contact: Frances Wakeman, 2 Manor Way, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 2BD, U.K.

The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking

Friends of Dard Hunter - papermaking and paper history.
contact: Patricia Ullom, N8279 Island View Road, Fish Creek WI 54212-9734. Phone 001 (414) 868-2411

Handmade Paper / Büttenpapier

Institute of Paper Conservation Links Page

International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists
contact: Pat Gentenaar, Churchilllaan 1009, 2286 AD Rijswijk, The Netherlands. Phone 1742-96961

Archive of Watermark Images -

Watermarks

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

The Watermark Archive goes onto the WWW

Repertorium of Papers in Greek Manuscripts in Spanish Libraries

Recent Notices of the Watermark Archive

The First International Conference on the History, Function, and Study of Watermarks Roanoke, Virginia, 10-13 October, 1996. The information on this Web site remains of current interest.

Halbeisen watermarks

 Place Names

The Getty Geographic Place Name Project

Place Names Gazetteer

Provenance research

Library History Database

Printing

American Printing History Association

British Printing Society
contact: Mike Willshire-Jacobs, Cobo, Beetons Avenue, Ash, Aldershot, Hampshire GU12 5DH, U.K.

Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century: An exhibition of the Department of Special Collections, The University of Delaware

Gutenberg Bible

Handpress - Richard-Gabriel Rummonds

Italian 16th Century Editions - a census

International Bank of Printers' Ornaments

Microsoft Typography Homepage

Manutius, Aldux - and his Press - Brigham Young University

Plantin-Moretus Museum

La Preuve par les fleurons? Analyse comparée du matériel ornemental des imprimeurs suisses romands 1775-1785

Printing Historical Society

Renaissance Liturgical Imprints

Rochester Institute of Technology - Library on printing history.

Scottish Book Trade Index - Index of publishers & printers, binders, papermakers, Booksellers &c, upto the mid 19th century.

Serif - a magazine of Type & Typography

Society of Typographic Designers
contact: 21-27 Seagrave Road, London SW6 1RP, England. Phone (020) 7734-6925.

Stansby, William. Printers ornaments used by William Stansby, 1615-1617

Type Directors' Club
contact: Mara Kurtz, Mara Kurtz Studio, 322 Central Park West, New York NY 10025. USA. Phone (212) 666-1453

The Typophiles .
contact: Barbara Henry, South Street Seaport Museum, 207 Front Street, New York NY 10038. USA.

Weygand, James Lamar.
A collection of pressmarks gathered from America's private presses and from others not so private.

Woodblocks - printers' woodblocks

 Resources - general and sites with links

Albert Masters Rare books on the web-list of resources

Bookwebsites.com - Links to over 120,000 book-related websites in over 5,000 categories

Science

Science and the Artist's Book: An exhibit of the Smithsonian Museum Libraries and the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA).

Science Defined by the Hands of a Book Artist: By Sally Scott Maran and published in Smithsonian Magazine.

Science Museum (London)

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