Book

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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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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>

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books
codices (gathered leaves)

Created

14yrs ago

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The history of Sir Charles Grandison in a series of letters : published from the originals by the editor of Pamela and Clarissa. In six volumes.

Maker(s)

Author: Richardson, Samuel
Bookseller: C. Hitch & L. Hawes (Firm)
Bookseller: J. and J. Rivington (Firm)
Bookseller: Millar, Andrew
Bookseller: R. and J. Dodsley
Bookseller: Leake, James
Bookseller: Main, Robert

Memoirs of the life of the late George Frederic Handel ; to which is added a catalogue of his works, and observations upon them.

Maker(s)

Author: Mainwaring, John
Publisher: R. and J. Dodsley

Clarissa : Or, the history of a young lady: comprehending the most important concerns of private life. In seven volumes. To each of which is added, a table of Contents. The fourth edition. In which many passages and some letters are restored from the original manuscripts. And to which is added, an ample collection of such of the Moral and Instructive sentiments interspersed throughout the Work, as may be presumed to be of general Use and Service.

Maker(s)

Author: Richardson, Samuel
Bookseller: Osborn, John
Bookseller: Millar, Andrew
Bookseller: J. and J. Rivington (Firm)
Bookseller: Leake, James

Thomae Gianninii Ferrariensis in patrio gymnasio primi philosophiae doctoris de lumine & speciebus spiritalibus, mente effectrice & speciebus intelligibilibus. Dæmonibus & mentibus à materia separatis. Disputationes aristotelicæ. Ad amplissimum S.R.E. cardinalem Bonifacium Bevilaquam.

Maker(s)

Author: Giannini, Tommaso
Dedicatee: Bevilacqua, Bonifacio
Printer: Baldini, Vittorio

Atlas de Rocque

Maker(s)

Rocque, John
Conservator: Brockman, James (bookbinder)

De omnibus illiberalibus sive mechanicis artibus : humani ingenii sagacitate atque industria iam inde ab exordio nascentis mundi vsque ad nostram aetatem adinuentis, luculentus atque succinctus liber / auctore Hartmanno Schoppero, novoforensi, norico ...

Maker(s)

Author: Schopper, Hartmann
Bookseller: Feyerabend, Sigmund Karl
Printer: Rabe, Georg
Bookbinder: Chambolle-Duru (Firm)

Il Petrarca con l'espositione di M. Alessandro Velutello. Di nuouo ristampato con le figure a i Trionfi, con le apostille, e con piu cose utili aggiunt

Maker(s)

Author: Petrarca, Francesco
Commentator: Vellutello, Alessandro
Printer: Bevilacqua, Nicolò

Fla Iosephi De bello iudaico, Libri septem : De Antiquitatibus, contra Apionem Grammaticum, libri duo ; et De Imperatrice Ratione, liber unus, in quo martyrium Machabæoru[m] describitur.

Maker(s)

Author: Josephus, Flavius
Translator: Rufinus, of Aquileia
Editor: Erasmus, Desiderius (Erasmus von Rotterdam)
Bookseller: Gryphius, Sebastianus

Philosophie d'amour de M. Leon Hebrev ; traduicte d'italien en françoys, par le Seigneur du Parc Champenoi

Maker(s)

Author: León, Hebreo
Translator: Sauvage, Denis, sieur du Parc
Printer: Rouillé, Guillaume
Printer: Payen, Thibaud
Bookbinder: Eve, Nicolas

Il Petrarcha con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellutello e con piu vtili cose in diuersi luoghi di quella nouissimamente da lui aggiunte : nessuno ardisca stampare, ne stampato uendere il presente uolume dentro altermino d'anni dieci sotto le pene che nelbreue del Sommo Pontifice, ene glialtri priuilegi si contengono.

Maker(s)

Author: Petrarca, Francesco
Commentator: Vellutello, Alessandro
Printer: Vitali, Bernardino dei

Xenophontis philosophi et historici clarissimi Opera, quae quidem Graecè extant, omnia, partim iam olim, partim nunc primùm, hominum doctissimorum diligentia, in Latinam linguam co[n]uersa, ac multò quàm antè accuratius recognita : quorum elenchum uersa pagella reperies.

Maker(s)

Author: Xenophon of Athens
Translator: Filelfo, Francesco
Printer: Isingrin, Michael

[Il Petrarcha spirituale and two other works]

Maker(s)

Author: Petrarca, Francesco
Author: Maggiorino, Benedetto
Author: Polybius

Gliasolani di messer Pietro Bembo.

Maker(s)

Author: Bembo, Pietro
Dedicatee: Borgia, Lucrezia
Printer: Manuzio, Aldo
Printer: Torresanus, Andreas, de Asula

Li sonetti, canzoni, et triomphi di M. Francesco Petrarcha historiati. Nuouamente revisti, & alla sua integrita ridott

Maker(s)

Author: Petrarca, Francesco
Publisher: Pasini, Mapheo
Publisher: Bindoni, Francesco
Printer: Bindoni, Agostino
Bookbinder: Belli, Valerio

Il Petrarcha con l'espositione d'Alessandro Vellutello di novo ristampato con le figure a i Triomphi, et con piu cose utili in varii luoghi aggiunte.

Maker(s)

Author: Petrarca, Francesco
Commentator: Vellutello, Alessandro
Printer: Gabriele Giolito de Ferrari & fratelli

The Four Gospels of the Lord Jesus Christ : according to the authorized version of King James I

Maker(s)

Publisher: Golden Cockerel Press
Illustrator: Gill, Eric
Printer: Gibbings, Robert John
Printer: Gibbings, Moira
Bookbinder: Tebbutt, Joan
Bookbinder: Cockerell, Sydney Morris

Dutch lovers

Maker(s)

Designer: Shigenobu, Yanagawa

Sansui kikan

Maker(s)

Designer: Kyokko, Fuchigami

Gazu Sui Fuyo

Maker(s)

Designer: Suzuki, Fuyo
Publisher: Ihachi Subaraya

A man with two women under a mosquito net

Maker(s)

Designer: Shigenobu, Yanagawa

Illustrations of the book of Job

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Blake, William
Publisher: Blake, William

Compositions by John Flaxman sculptor, R.A., from the Divine poem of Dante Alighieri, containing Hell, Purgatory and Paradise with quotations from the Italian, and translations from the version of the Reverend H. Boyd, to each plate.

Maker(s)

Illustrator: Flaxman, John
Illustrator: Piroli, Tommaso
Translator: Boyd, Henry
Publisher: Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme

Mr. George Field's Drying Stove

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Davis, James
Draughtsman: Varley, Cornelius (After)

Garcinia Cambogia

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Unknown

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