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• A Medieval Mirror: Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1324-1500 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by Adrian Wilson and Joyce Lancaster Wilson (illustrated HTML at UC Press)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Block Printing Craft (Peoria, IL: The Manual Arts Press, c1938), by Raymond W. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Considerations on Engraving (New York: W. E. Rudge, 1921), by Timothy Cole
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Prints and Books: Informal Papers (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1926), by William Mills Ivins (page images at HathiTrust)

• Passional Christi und Antichristi (in German; woodcuts sometimes attributed to Hans and sometimes to Lucas Cranach; 1521), by Martin Luther, contrib. by Philip Melanchthon and Johann Schwertfeger, illust. by Hans Cranach and Lucas Cranach (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Nōsatsu Kai (reprinted from the Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, 1917), by Frederick Starr (page images at HathiTrust)

• Japanese Woodblock Printing, by Hiroshi Yoshida (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
• Japanese Wood-Cutting and Wood-Cut Printing, by T. Tokuno (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
• The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut, by Walter J. Phillips (illustrated HTML in Canada)
• Wood-Block Printing by the Japanese Method, by Frank Morley Fletcher (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)

• Hand-Book of Wood Engraving (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881), by William A. Emerson (PDF at shipbrook.net)

• Wood Engraving (London: Ditchling Press, 1921), by R. John Beedham, contrib. by Eric Gill (HTML at woodblock.com)
• Hand-Book of Wood Engraving (Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1881), by William A. Emerson (PDF at shipbrook.net)
• The Technique of the Color Wood-Cut, by Walter J. Phillips (illustrated HTML in Canada)
• Wood-Block Printing by the Japanese Method, by Frank Morley Fletcher (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
• Japanese Woodblock Printing, by Hiroshi Yoshida (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)

• Modern Belgian Wood Engravers (second edition; Art, Life and Science in Belgium #15; New York: Belgian Government Information Center, 1954), by Jan Albert Goris (multiple formats at archive.org)

• My Book of Hours: 167 Designs Engraved on Wood (1922), by Frans Masereel, contrib. by Romain Rolland (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Dream of Poliphilus: Fac-Similes of One Hundred and Sixty-Eight Woodcuts in "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili" (Venice, 1499), With an Introductory Notice, and Descriptions (new edition; London: Reproduced for the Dept. of Science and Art in Photo-Lithography by W. Griggs, 1893), ed. by J. W. Appell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Japanese Wood-Cutting and Wood-Cut Printing, by T. Tokuno (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
• Japanese Woodblock Printing, by Hiroshi Yoshida (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)
• Wood-Block Printing by the Japanese Method, by Frank Morley Fletcher (illustrated HTML at woodblock.com)

• Linoleum Block Printing (Waynesboro, VA: Charles W. Smith Press, c1925), by Charles Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Block Printing Craft (Peoria, IL: The Manual Arts Press, c1938), by Raymond W. Perry (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1929), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golden Book: The Story of Fine Books and Bookmaking, Past and Present (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927), by Douglas C. McMurtrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Library (London: Macmillan, 1881), by Andrew Lang, contrib. by Austin Dobson and W. J. Loftie, illust. by J. J. Wild
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1921), by Harry Gidney Aldis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Books (London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of Books (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• A Book for All Readers: An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1900), by Ainsworth Rand Spofford (Gutenberg text)
• Bookbinding, and the Care of Books: A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders and Librarians (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1910), by Douglas Cockerell, ed. by W. R. Lethaby, illust. by Noel Rooke (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• The Greatest Book in the World, and Other Papers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925), by A. Edward Newton (page images at CMU)
• A Magnificent Farce, and Other Diversions of a Book-Collector (fourth impression; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• Books and Bookmen, by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Boxes for the Protection of Books: Their Design and Construction (Washington, DC: Preservation Directorate, Collections Services, Library of Congress, 1994), by Lage Carlson, John Bertonaschi, Margot Healey, Lynn Kidder, Nancy Lev, Bob Muens, Carol Paulson-Crawford, and Carrie Beyer, illust. by Margaret R. Brown (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Care and Repair of Books (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1946), by Harry Miller Lydenberg and John Archer (page images at CMU)
• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The Enemies of Books (second edition; London: E. Stock, 1888), by William Blades (Gutenberg text)

• Book Preservation Technologies (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Book: Its History and Development (London: A. Constable and Co., 1907), by Cyril Davenport (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book: Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, From Gutenberg to the Present Time (London: H. Grevel and Co., 1890), by Henri Bouchot
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at CMU

• Appleton's Magazine (full serial archives)

• Cheap Book Production in the United States, 1870 to 1891 (masters thesis; Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Library, 1937), by Raymond H. Shove (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shakespeare and the Stationers (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1955), by Leo Kirschbaum (PDF at Ohio State)

• Alleged Price Fixing of Library Books: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Ninth Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 191 (Washington: GPO, 1966), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters on International Copyright (second edition; New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1868), by Henry Charles Carey (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature (new edition; 10 parts plus appendix; London: H. G. Bohn, 1857-1865), by William Thomas Lowndes and Henry G. Bohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliotheca Meermanniana (4 sale catalog books in 2 volumes, in various languages; 1824), contrib. by Gerard Meerman and Johan Meerman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Hamilton Palace Libraries: Catalogue of the Beckford Library Removed From Hamilton Palace (4 portions; London: Dryden press, J. Davy and Sons, 1882-1883)
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • third and fourth portions: multiple formats at archive.org

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