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Book

Scope note

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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AAT
Object name
Document type
Object category
Inscription type
Technique
Material

Getty AAT term number

300028051

Broader Terms used

<information artifacts by physical form>

Narrower Terms used

<books by conditions of production>
<books by external form>
<books by internal form>

Term used for

books
codices (gathered leaves)

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

Later Letters of Edward Lear...to Chichester Fortescue (Lord Carlingford), Frances Countess Waldegrave and Others

Maker(s)

Author: Lear, Edward
Editor: Strachey, Constance Braham Strachey, Baroness
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin

The blessed damozel. reprinted from The Germ.

Maker(s)

Author: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Bookbinder: Ricketts, Charles de Sousy
Bookbinder: J. & J. Leighton
Publisher: Hacon & Ricketts
Printer: Ballantyne Press
Printer: Vale Press

Fragment

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Deruta pottery (Probably)

O Ewigkeit - du Donnerwort, so spanne meine Glieder aus

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Kokoschka, Oskar

Letters of Edward Lear: Author of The Book of Nonsense, to Chichester Fortescue, Lord Carlingford, Frances Countess Waldegrave

Maker(s)

Author: Lear, Edward
Editor: Strachey, Constance Braham Strachey, Baroness
Publisher: T. Fisher Unwin

An image of Painting

The Virgin teaching the infant Christ to read

Maker(s)

Painter: Maratti, Carlo (Copy after)

An image of Painting

St Augustine

Maker(s)

Painter: Carlone, Carlo Innocenzo

An image of Painting

The Woman Taken in Adultery

Maker(s)

Painter: Grassi, Nicola (Attributed to)

An image of Painting

Monks singing

Maker(s)

Painter: Heemskerck, Egbert van (the elder)

An image of Painting

The temptation of St. Anthony

Maker(s)

Painter: Teniers, David II (Copy after)

An image of Painting

The Reader

Maker(s)

Painter: Gérard, Marguerite
Painter: Fragonard, Jean Honoré

An image of Painting

Copy of Titian's portrait of Jacopo Sannazaro

Maker(s)

Painter: Shannon, Charles Haslewood

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in English verse by Edward Fitzgerald

Maker(s)

Author: Omar Khayyam
Illustrator: Behzad Miniatur, Hossein
Translator: Fitzgerald, Edward
Editor: Esfandiary, Hossein-Ali Nouri
Printer: Shumposha Photo Printing

The Golden Cockerel Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Maker(s)

Translator: Fitzgerald, Edward
Contributor: Ross, E. Dension
Contributor: Ganz, Charles
Illustrator: Buckland-Wright, John
Publisher: Golden Cockerel Press
Publisher: Sandford, Christopher
Publisher: Sandford, Anthony
Publisher: Rutter, Owen
Binder (person): Sangorski & Sutcliffe
Paper maker: Arnold & Foster

The British character studied and revealed

Maker(s)

Illustrator: Pont
Contributor: Delafield, E. M.
Publisher: Collins (publisher)
Publisher: Punch

The Fause knicht and other fancies

Maker(s)

Illustrator: Hassall, Joan
Designer: Hassall, Joan
Compiler: Reid, J. M.
Publisher: Saltire Society
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd.

Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell - Chapter heading

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell - Book cover

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell - End paper unit

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell - Illustration

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell - Illustration

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell - Finis

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell - Illustration

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

Cranford by Mrs. Gaskell - Illustration

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hassall, Joan

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