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:
Janus, Secundus
Author:
Stanley, Thomas
Publisher:
Nonesuch Press
Printer:
Kynoch Press
Author:
Thomas, Dylan
Publisher:
Folio Society
Illustrator:
Richards, Ceri Geraldus
Printer:
Mackay, W. & J.
Binder (person):
Mackay, W. & J.
Printer:
W. S. Cowell Ltd.
Contributor:
Greer, Rowan A.
Illustrator:
Wyatt, Leo
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Printer:
Oxford University Press
Designer:
Dreyfus, John
Author:
McKitterick, Dr D.
Publisher:
Whittington Press
Binder (person):
Settle, Smith
Printer:
Senecio Press
Author:
Fontenelle, M. de (Bernard Le Bovier)
Translator:
Glanvill, John
Contributor:
Garnett, David
Publisher:
Nonesuch Press
Illustrator:
Poulton, T. L.
Designer:
Meynell, Francis
Compositor:
Hay, T. W.
Printer:
Curwen Press
Author:
Tolstoy, Leo
Translator:
Garnett, Constance
Editor:
Spett, Gustavus
Translator:
Guerney, Bernard Guilbert
Illustrator:
Freedman, Barnett
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Designer:
Dreyfus, John
Printer:
Cambridge University Press
Printer:
Curwen Press
(Possibly)
Author:
Plato
Translator:
George, Peter
Illustrator:
Ayrton, Michael
Publisher:
Folio Society
Printer:
University Printing House
Printer:
Scolar Press
Binder (person):
Mackay, W. & J.
Author:
Jonson, Ben
Editor:
Levin, Harry
Publisher:
Nonesuch Press
Author:
Watson, James (printer)
Designer:
Rae, Thomas
Printer:
Black Pennell Press
Author:
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Editor:
Spender, Stephen
Illustrator:
Smith, Richard Shirley
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Designer:
Dreyfus, John
Printer:
University Printing House
Printer:
Crutchley, Brooke
Editor:
Morison, Samuel Eliot
Illustrator:
Freitas, Lima de
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Typographer:
White, Lewis F.
Printer:
Hartford
Author:
Wordsworth, William
Editor:
Wordsworth, Jonathan
Illustrator:
O'Connor, John
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Designer:
Dreyfus, John
Printer:
University Printing House
Printer:
Crutchley, Brooke
Author:
Thomas, Aquinas
Compiler:
Shuster, George N.
Illustrator:
Stone, Reynolds
Publisher:
Limited Editions Club
Printer:
Mackay, W. & J.
Typographer:
Carter, Will
Author:
Milton, John
Contributor:
Doren, Mark van
Composer:
Lawes, Henry
Contributor:
Foss, Hubert
Illustrator:
Dulac, Edmund
Publisher:
Heritage Press
Printer:
Cambridge University Press
Author:
Rustaveli, Shota
Translator:
Vivian, Katharine
Publisher:
Folio Society
Printer:
Mackay, W. & J.
Binder (person):
Mackay, W. & J.
Author:
Morison, Stanley
Printer:
Cambridge University Press
Author:
Kindersley, David
Printer:
Skelton, Christopher
Printer:
Skelton's Press
Author:
Dreyfus, John
Author:
Washington, George
Author:
Smith, Page
Publisher:
Zeitlin & Ver Brugge
Compiler:
Newman, Ralph Geoffrey
Compiler:
Wiche, Glen Norman
Contributor:
Adler, Mortimer J.
Publisher:
Ralph Geoffrey Newman Inc.
Binder (person):
Zonne Book-binders
Editor:
Thompson, Susan Otis
Publisher:
Typophiles
Printer:
Stinehour Press
Paper maker:
Curtis Paper Company
Binder (person):
Sendor Bindory
Author:
O'Brien, Florence Roma Muir Wilson
Publisher:
Nonesuch Press
Printer:
R. and R. Clark Ltd.
Author:
Rollins, Carl Purington
Designer:
Rollins, Carl Purington
Publisher:
Typophiles
Printer:
Yale University Press
Binder (person):
Boston Bookbinding Company
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