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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<books by conditions of production>
<books by external form>
<books by internal form>
14yrs ago
Author:
Guillaume, de Deguileville
Editor:
Stürzinger, Jakob
Publisher:
Roxburghe Club
Printer:
Nichols and Sons
Author:
Weever, John
Engraver:
Cecil, Thomas
Printer:
Harper, Thomas, d. 1656
Bookseller:
Sadler, Laurence
Author:
Nykamp, William
Designer:
D'Ambrosio
Publisher:
Santa Susana Press
Author:
Crispolti, Cesare
Publisher:
Tomassi, Pietro
Publisher:
Zecchini, Sebastiano
Author:
Pächt, Otto
Author:
Dodwell, Charles Reginald
Author:
Wormald, Francis
Publisher:
Warburg Institute
Editor:
Norton, Robert
Publisher:
Parsimony Press
Author:
E. C., Esquier
Author:
Rogers, Thomas
Author:
Powell, Thomas
Author:
Phillips, John, active 1570-1591
Editor:
Edmonds, Charles
Isham, Charles Edmund
Publisher:
Roxburghe Club
Printer:
J. B. Nichols and Sons
Author:
Sandler, Lucy Freeman
Publisher:
Harvey Miller Publishers
Author:
Alexander, J. J. G.
Contributor:
Wainwright, Clive
Contributor:
Towneley, Simon, Sir
Publisher:
Roxburghe Club
Printer:
Smith Settle Limited
Author:
Alexander, de Villa Dei
Contributor:
Gaselee, Stephen
Publisher:
Roxburghe Club
Printer:
Cambridge University Press
Editor:
Jeayes, Isaac Herbert
Publisher:
Roxburghe Club
Printer:
J. B. Nichols and Sons
Author:
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Printer:
Nash, John Henry
Publisher: St Dominic's Press
Author:
Aeschylus
Illustrator:
Ayrton, Michael
Translater:
Morshead, E. D. A. (Edmund Doidge Anderson)
Contributor:
Warner, Rex
Publisher:
Heritage Press
Author:
Basile, Giambattista
Translator:
Burton, Richard Francis
Illustrator:
Ayrton, Michael
Publisher:
Spring Books
Author:
Bridson, D. G
Illustrator:
Ayrton, Michael
Publisher:
Rampant Lions Press
Printer:
Carter, Will
Printer:
Carter, Sebastian
Paper maker:
Börjeson, Ingeborg
Printer:
Stellar Press
Author:
Kennedy, Richard
Publisher:
Whittington Press
Paper maker:
Wookey Hole Paper Mill
Binder (person):
Hunter and Foulis
Author:
Ayrton, Michael
Illustrator:
Ayrton, Michael
Publisher:
Max Reinhardt
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