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Paratext

Here are entered works on the textual elements associated with a book that are apart from the text of the work itself, such as the text of the title page, preface, end notes, book jacket, etc.

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• Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space Through Paratexts (Studies in Manuscript Cultures v7; Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2016), ed. by Giovanni Ciotti and Hang Lin (PDF and Epub with commentary at De Gruyter)
• Show Sold Separately: Promos, Spoilers, and Other Media Paratexts (New York and London: NYU Press, c2010), by Jonathan Gray (multiple formats with commentary at NYU Press)

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

• 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

• It Goes On the Shelf, ed. by Cuyler W. Brooks (full serial archives)

• Cut/Copy/Paste: Fragments from the History of Bookwork (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2021), by Whitney Trettien (HTML with commentary at mn.edu)

• The Best Books: A Reader's Guide to the Choice of the Best Available Books (About 50,000) in Every Department of Science, Art and Literature, With the Dates of the First and Last Editions and the Price, Size, and Publisher's Name of Each Book (second edition, corrected; London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co.; et al., 1901), by William Swan Sonnenschein
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• List of Books for Girls and Women and Their Clubs: With Descriptive and Critical Notes and a List of Periodicals and Hints for Girls' and Women's Clubs (Boston: Published for the American Library Association Publishing Section by the Library Bureau, 1895), ed. by George Iles and Augusta H. Leypoldt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Reader's Guide to Contemporary Literature: Being the First Supplement to The Best Books (London: S. Sonnenschein and Co.; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1895), by William Swan Sonnenschein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog (partial serial archives)
• Standard Catalog for Public Libraries: Fiction Section (second edition revised; New York: H. W. Wilson Co., 1931), by Phyllis Crawford, ed. by Corinne Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• English Prose Fiction: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (abridged version of Fiction Catalog; Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fiction Catalog: A Complete List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1911) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Fiction Catalog: A Selected List Cataloged by Author and Title With Annotations (Minneapolis: H. W. Wilson Co., 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos (second edition, in Spanish; Bilbao: Sr. Administrator de el Mensajero del Corazón de Jesús, ca. 1911), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Novelistas Malos y Buenos Juzgados en Orden de Naciones: Júzganse 2,057 Novelistas: 288 Españoles, 97 Hispanoamericanos, 24 Portugueses, 65 Italianos, 1173 Franceses, 143 Ingleses, 98 Alemanes, 169 Rusos, Belgas, Escandinovos, etc. (in Spanish; Bogotá: Impr. Eléctrica, 1910), by Pablo Ladrón de Guevara (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Pantology: or, A Systematic Survey of Human Knowledge, Proposing a Classification of All Its Branches and Illustrating Their History, Relations, Uses, and Objects (Philadelphia: Hogan and Thompson, 1841), by Roswell Park (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Editions for the Armed Services, Inc.: A History, Together With the Complete List of 1324 Books Published for American Armed Forces Overseas (New York: Editions for the Armed Services, Inc., ca. 1948), contrib. by John Jamieson (page images at HathiTrust)

• 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)

• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (second edition; Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1919), by A. Edward Newton (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• The Amenities of Book-Collecting and Kindred Affections (London: J. Lane, 1920), by A. Edward Newton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1886), by Percy Fitzgerald (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Book Fancier: or, The Romance of Book Collecting (second edition, revised; London: S. Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1887), by Percy Fitzgerald (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Book-Hunter (new edition, with a memoir of the author; Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1883), by John Hill Burton, contrib. by Katherine Burton (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and pa e images)
• The Book Hunter (based on the second edition of 1863; Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1900), by John Hill Burton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Books in Black or Red (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Edmund Lester Pearson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Essentials of Book Collecting, by Robert F. Lucas (HTML with commentary at trussel.com)
• The Greatest Book in the World, and Other Papers (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1925), by A. Edward Newton (page images at CMU)
• The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac, by Eugene Field (Gutenberg text)
• The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury, by Richard de Bury, trans. by Ernest Chester Thomas
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at philobiblon.com
• 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)
• Book-Lovers, Bibliomaniacs and Book Clubs (c1904), by Henry Howard Harper (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Hints to Collectors of Original Editions of the Works of Charles Dickens (London: G. Redway, 1885), by Charles Plumptre Johnson
  • 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 Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts (Helps for Students of History #17; London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge; New York: Macmillan, 1919), by M. R. James
  • HTML at tertullian.org
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

More items available under broader and related terms at left.