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• Printing -- Peru -- Lima -- History
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• Fine Books (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Methuen and Co., 1912), by Alfred W. Pollard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• 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 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
• 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
• Typographia: or, The Printer's Instructor (fourth edition; Philadelphia: L. Johnson and Co., 1854), by Thomas F. Adams
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Book: Its History and Development (London: A. Constable and Co., 1907), by Cyril Davenport (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Commemoration in Louisville of the 500th Anniversary of the Invention of Printing: An Interview Broadcast Over Station WAVE, Louisville, Ky., October 20, 1940, 10:15 to 10:30 P.M. (Louisville: Louisville Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1940), by Douglas C. McMurtrie, contrib. by Joseph D. Scholtz, C. Frank Mann, and William C. Lutz (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Commemoration in Louisville of the 500th Anniversary of the Invention of Printing: An Interview Broadcast Over Station WAVE, Louisville, Ky., October 20, 1940, 10:15 to 10:30 P.M. (Louisville: Louisville Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1940), by Douglas C. McMurtrie, contrib. by Joseph D. Scholtz, C. Frank Mann, and William C. Lutz (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries (partial serial archives)

• Dot-Font: Talking About Design (text-only version; originally published 2006), by John D. Berry (multiple formats with commentary at dot-font.com)

• Hunt Roman: The Birth of a Type, by Hermann Zapf and Jack Werner Stauffacher (page images at CMU)

• The First Printing in Alberta (reprinted from Printing Review of Canada; 1932), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Early American Printing: An Exhibition at the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan (Bulletin #15; Ann Arbor: Printed at the Alumni Press, University of Michigan, 1927), by William L. Clements Library, contrib. by Randolph Greenfield Adams
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Introduction of Printing Into Canada: A Brief History (Montreal: Rolland Paper Co., 1930), by Aegidius Fauteux (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Early Printing in Barbados (London: Privately printed, 1933), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dendermondsche Drukpers (in Dutch; Dendermonde: F.-J. Du Caju, 1890), by Jan Broeckaert (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)

• Early Printing in Wyoming and the Black Hills (Heartman's Historical Series #67; Hattiesburg, MS: Printed for the Book Farm, 1943), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Earliest British Columbia Imprint (reprinted from Printing Review of Canada, 1931), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The First Printing in British Columbia (Chicago: Privately printed, 1929), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• California Imprints, August 1846-June 1851 (1922), by Henry R. Wagner
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Introduction of Printing Into Canada: A Brief History (Montreal: Rolland Paper Co., 1930), by Aegidius Fauteux (multiple formats at archive.org)

• List of Books Printed in Connecticut, 1709-1800 (Hartford: Hartford Press, 1904), by J. Hammond Trumbull, ed. by Annie Eliot Trumbull (page images at HathiTrust)

• The First Printing in Dominica (London: Privately printed, 1932), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Beginnings of Printing in Abyssinia (extract from The Library; 1930), by S. Gaselee (multiple formats at archive.org)

• L'Atelier de Guillaume Le Talleur, Premier Imprimeur Rouennais: Histoire et Bibliographie (in French; Rouen: Impr. A. Lainé, 1916), by P. Le Verdier
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The First Printing in Georgia (Metruchen, NJ: Printed for C. F. Heartman, 1927), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• James Johnston, Georgia's First Printer (Savannah: Pigeonhole Press, 1956), by Alexander A. Lawrence, contrib. by Ray Dilley (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, From 1640-1708 A. D. (3 volumes; London: Privatly printed, 1913-1914), by Stationers' Company (London, England), ed. by George Edward Briscoe Eyre, contrib. by Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Printing in Greenland, With a List of Greenland Imprints in the Krabbe Library (Stanford University, CA: Stanford University Press, 1939), by Nathan Van Patten (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ka Pa'i Palapala: Early Printing in Hawaii (Honolulu: Printing Industries of Hawaii, 1973), by A. Grove Day and Albertine Loomis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Journal of a Canoe Voyage Along the Kauai Palis, Made in 1845; and The History of the Hawaiian Mission Press, With a Bibliography of the Earlier Publications (Papers of the Hawaiian Historical Society #14; Honolulu: Paradise of the Pacific Print, 1908), by Gorham D. Gilman, Howard M. Ballou, and George Robert Carter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Notes in Supplement to "The First Printers of Chicago" (Chicago: Privately printed, 1931), by Douglas C. McMurtrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The First Printing in Peoria, Illinois (Chicago: Ludlow Typograph Co., 1929), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• Indiana Imprints, 1804-1849: A Supplement to Mary Alden Walker's "Beginnings of Printing in the State of Indiana," Published in 1934 (Indiana Historical Society Publications, v11 #5; Indianapolis: Indianapolis Historical Society, 1937), by Douglas C. McMurtrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Beginnings of Printing in the State of Indiana: Comprising a Brief Analysis of the Literary Production, and a List of Items Printed to 1850 (Crawfordsville, IN: R. E. Banta, 1934), by Mary Alden Walker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Italienischen Buchdrucker- und Verlegerzeichen bis 1525 (in German; Strasbourg: J. H. Heitz (Heitz und Mundel), 1893), by Paul Kristeller
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some figures missing
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Press and Printers of Jamaica Prior to 1820 (reprinted from the Proceeedings of the American Antiquarian Society; Worcester, MA: The Society, 1916), by Frank Cundall (page images at HathiTrust)

• John Bradford, Esq.: Pioneer Kentucky Printer and Historian (Lexington, KY: Winburn Press, 1950), by J. Winston Coleman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The First Printing in Kentucky: Some Account of Thomas Parvin and John Bradford and the Establishment of the Kentucky Gazette in Lexington in the Year 1787, With a Bibliography of Seventy Titles (Louisville: C. T. Dearing Printing Co., 1936), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Printing in Colonial Spanish America (Hamden, CT and London: Archon Books, c1962), by Lawrence S. Thompson (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Pioneer Printer of New Orleans (reprinted from the Southern Printer; Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1930), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (HTML at elfinspell.com)

• Supplement to a Bibliography of Maine Imprints to 1820 (Stonington, ME: Printed by Mrs. and Mr. R.W. Noyes, 1934), by R. Webb Noyes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Bibliography of Maine Imprints to 1820 (Stonington, ME: Printed by Mrs. and Mr. R. W. Noyes, 1930), by R. Webb Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The First Printing in Manitoba (reprinted from the Printing Review of Canada; Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1931), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Early Massachusetts Press, 1638-1711 (2 volumes; Boston: Club of Odd Volumes, 1907), by George Emery Littlefield (page images at HathiTrust)

• Colonial Printing in Mexico: Catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Library of Congress in 1939 Commemorating the Four Hundredth Anniversary of Printing in the New World (Washington: GPO, 1939), by Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)

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