Collections of wood or ivory tablets, or sheets of paper, parchment, or similar material, that are blank, written on, or printed, and are strung or bound together; commonly many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing; especially, when printed, a bound volume, or a volume of some size.
This term has 2,576 records attributed within our system.
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300028051
<books by conditions of production>
<books by external form>
<books by internal form>
14yrs ago
Author:
Swift, Jonathan
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Printer:
Aldus Printers
Designer:
Rogers, Bruce
Author:
Keats, John
Editor:
Ward, Aileen
Illustrator:
Gentleman, David
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Designer:
Dreyfus, John
Printer:
University Printing House
Printer:
Crutchley, Brooke
Author:
Hassall, Christopher
Printer:
Cambridge University Press
Printer:
Crutchley, Brooke
Author:
Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of
Author:
Chad, George William
Editor:
Wellington, Gerald Wellesley, Duke of
Publisher:
Saint Nicolas Press
Printer:
Barker, Nicolas
Author:
Howitt, May
Publisher:
Macy, Helen
Compositor:
Macy, Helen
Publisher:
Macy, George
Printer:
Nonesuch Press
Author:
Walton, Izaak
Illustrator:
Phipps, Howard
Publisher:
Perdix Press
Binder (person):
Brown, Frank
Author:
Defoe, Daniel
Publisher:
Folio Society
Illustrator:
Lawrence, John
Printer:
Mackay, W. & J.
Binder (person):
Mackay, W. & J.
Author:
Mason, John Henry
Editor:
Mason, John (son of John Henry)
Writer:
Mason, John (son of John Henry)
Illustrator:
Graham, Rigby
Publisher:
Twelve by Eight
Printer:
Orpheus Press
Printer:
William Caple & Co. Ltd.
Author:
Flaubert, Gustave
Contributor:
O'Brien, Justin
Illustrator:
Bawden, Edward
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Designer:
Dreyfus, John
Printer:
Cambridge University Press
Author:
Defoe, Daniel
Publisher:
Folio Society
Illustrator:
Lawrence, John
Printer:
Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press)
Printer:
Mackay, W. & J.
Binder (person):
Mackay, W. & J.
Author:
Hammer, Viktor
Printer:
Hammer, Carolyn R.
Printer:
Stamperia del Santuccio
Publisher:
George Wittenborn Inc.
Author:
Cornford, Frances
Illustrator:
Cornford, Christopher
Printer:
Saint Nicolas Press
Paper maker:
Grosvenor, Chater & Co. Ltd.
Author:
Lawrence, David Herbert
Contributor:
Garnett, David
Publisher:
Nonesuch Press
Printer:
Curwen Press
Author:
Blake, William
Editor:
Ward, Aileen
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Designer:
Dreyfus, John
Printer:
University Printing House
Printer:
Crutchley, Brooke
Translator:
Vermes, Geza
Illustrator:
Weil, Shraga
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Printer:
Westerham Press
Typographer:
Friedlaender, Henri
Author:
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Contributor:
Hewlett, Dorothy
Publisher:
Folio Society
Illustrator:
Stone, Reynolds
Printer:
Stamperia Valdónega
Binder (person):
C. & H. T. Evans Ltd.
Author:
Whitman, Walt
Publisher:
David R. Godine, Publisher
Printer:
Meriden Gravure Company
Printer:
Stinehour Press
Binder (person):
Robert Burlen & Son
Designer:
Hidy, Lance
Editor:
Hidy, Lance
Contributor:
Doren, Mark van
Illustrator:
Angelo, Valenti
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Printer:
Press of A. Colish
Author:
Sparrow, John
Illustrator:
Stone, Reynolds
Printer:
Rendall, Simon
Printer:
Yellowsands Press
Author:
Darwin, Charles
Illustrator:
Gibbings, Robert John
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Designer:
Dreyfus, John
Printer:
Cambridge University Press
Author:
Hoopington, Ambrose
Publisher:
Nonesuch Press
Printer:
Kynoch Press
Author:
Foden, Peter
Publisher:
Whittington Press
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