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:
Folio Society
Illustrator:
Bawden, Edward
Printer:
Mackay, W. & J.
Binder (person):
Mackay, W. & J.
Author:
Sadleir, Michael
Contributor:
Dent, Hugh R.
Publisher:
J. M. Dent and Sons
Author:
Ryder, John
Publisher:
Phoenix House
Binder (person):
Tinlings
Paper maker:
Cockerell, Douglas
Author:
Chin, Chien
Contributor:
Rudolph, Richard C.
Publisher:
Typophiles
Designer:
Ritchie, Ward
Printer:
Ritchie, Ward
Binder (person):
Wassmann, Robert H.
Binder (person):
J. F. Tapley Company
Printer:
Meriden Gravure Company
Author:
Johnson, John (printer)
Publisher:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green
Author:
Matheson, William
Publisher:
Library of Congress
Printer:
Press of A. Colish
Printer:
Stephenson Lithograph
Illustrator:
Ravilious, Eric William
Publisher:
Lanston Monotype Corporation
Author:
Rogerson, Ian
Publisher:
Nonesuch Press
Printer:
Lloyd, Peter
Printer:
Gamecock Press
Writer:
Meynell, Bay
Illustrator:
Joseph, Jane
Author:
Gooding, Mel
Publisher:
EMH Arts
Printer:
Bignell, Graham
Compositor:
Crawford, Neil
Printer:
New North Press
Binder (person):
Rowledge, Tracy
Author:
Carter, Sebastian
Designer:
Carter, Sebastian
Printer:
Carter, Sebastian
Publisher:
Rampant Lions Press
Binder (person):
Norton Bridge
Author:
Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
Alexeieff, Alexandre
Publisher:
Éditions de la Pléiade
Publisher:
Schiffrin, Jacques
Illustrator:
Whistler, Reginald John (Rex)
Contributor:
Baring, Maurice
Publisher:
Cobden-Sanderson
Author:
Lancaster, Osbert
Illustrator:
Lancaster, Osbert
Publisher:
John Murray
Printer:
Butler & Tanner Ltd.
Author:
Street, A. G. (Arthur George)
Illustrator:
Raverat, Gwendolen
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
Author:
Agate, James
Illustrator:
Whistler, Reginald John (Rex)
Publisher:
Victor Gollancz
Author:
Blades, William
Contributor:
Reed, Talbot Baines
Publisher:
Eliot Stock
Printer:
Blades, East & Blades
Author:
Beaton, Cecil Walter Hardy
Illustrator:
Whistler, Reginald John (Rex)
Illustrator:
Whistler, Laurence
Editor:
Carter, Lionel
Publisher:
Curtain Press
Publisher:
Murray, Charles Fairfax
Compiler:
Davies, Hugh Wm.
Author:
Greenhill, Elizabeth
Publisher:
K. D. Duval
Author:
Johnson, John de Monins
Contributor:
Dent, Hugh R.
Publisher:
J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd
Author:
Theocritus
Translator:
Dyer, Edward
Illustrator:
Gribble, Vivien
Illustrator:
Balston, Thomas
Publisher:
Duckworth and Co
Printer:
Cloister Press
Author:
Nichols, Beverley
Illustrator:
Whistler, Reginald John (Rex)
Publisher:
Jonathan Cape
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