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• Writing -- Materials and instruments

• Paper Stories: Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2023), ed. by Silvia V. Hufnagel, Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, and Davíð Ólafsson (PDF at OAPEN)

• Paper Stories: Paper and Book History in Early Modern Europe (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, c2023), ed. by Silvia V. Hufnagel, Þórunn Sigurðardóttir, and Davíð Ólafsson (PDF at OAPEN)

• Forty Centuries of Ink, by David Nunes Carvalho (Gutenberg text)

• Varnishes, Lacquers, Printing Inks and Sealing-Waxes: Their Raw Materials and Their Manufacture; To Which is Added, The Art of Varnishing and Lacquering, Including the Preparation of Putties and of Stains for Wood, Ivory, Bone, Horn, and Leather (Philadelphia: H.C. Baird and Co., 1893), by William T. Brannt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hieratic Ostraka and Papyri Found by J. E. Quibell in the Ramesseum, 1895-6 (Egyptian Research Account extra volume; London: B. Quaritch, 1898), ed. by Wilhelm Spiegelberg, contrib. by James Edward Quibell (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Bonefolder: An E-Journal for the Bookbinder and Book Artist (full serial archives)

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

• The Struggles of a Book Against Excessive Taxation (London, ca. 1850), by Charles Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Old Time Wall Papers: An Account of the Pictorial Papers on Our Forefathers' Walls, With a Study of the Historical Development of Wall Paper Making and Decoration (Greenwich, CT: Literary Collector Press, 1905), by Kate Sanborn (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Shadows From the Walls of Death (specimens of arsenical wallpapers, with preceding commentary; Lansing: W. S. George and Co., 1874), by R. C. Kedzie (page images at NIH)

• The Struggles of a Book Against Excessive Taxation (London, ca. 1850), by Charles Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Chapters on Papermaking (5 volumes; London: C. Lockwood and Son, 1907-1908), by Clayton Beadle (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Epson Connection: Atari XE/XL (1986), by Leigh Zeitz (HTML at atariarchives.org)

• Specimen Book of Printing Types (1858), by Chas. T. White & Co. (page images at ohiomemory.org)

• The Story of the Invention of Steel Pens, With a Description of the Manufacturing Processes by Which They Are Produced, by Henry Bore (Gutenberg text)

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

• The Lewis Carroll Birthday Book (New York: A. Wessels and Co., c1905), by Lewis Carroll, ed. by Christine Terhune Herrick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Red Letter Days: A Memorial and Birthday Book (American edition, with a birthday index; New York: A.D.F. Randolph and Co., ca. 1882), by Frances Ridley Havergal (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Theory of Digital Handling of Non-Numerical Information and its Implications to Machine Economics (Zator Technical Bulletin #48; Boston: Zator Co., c1950), by Calvin N. Mooers (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Letter to Sir Humphry Davy, Bart., President of the Royal Society, etc., etc., on the Application of Machinery to the Purpose of Calculating and Printing Mathematical Tables (London: J. Booth; and Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1822), by Charles Babbage
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• Linear Computations (New York: J. Wiley and Sons; London: Chapman and Hall, c1951), by Paul S. Dwyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern Instruments and Methods of Calculation, ed. by E. M. Horsburgh (page images at Cornell)

• Computing Before Computers, ed. by William Aspray (PDF files at ed-thelen.org)

• Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2009), by Lars Heide (multiple formats with commentary at Project Muse)

• Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation (New York: T. J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau, Columbia University, 1940), by W. J. Eckert and New York Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)

• Punched Card Methods in Scientific Computation (New York: T. J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau, Columbia University, 1940), by W. J. Eckert and New York Thomas J. Watson Astronomical Computing Bureau (page images at HathiTrust)

• How to Use Duplicating Machines (New York et al.: Gregg Pub. Co., c1945), by E. W. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Evolution of the Typewriter (c1917), by Charles Vonley Oden
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The History of the Typewriter: Being an Illustrated Account of the Origin, Rise and Development of the Writing Machine (London: G. Pitman, 1909), by G. C. Mares (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Handbook for Writers (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition of "The Flat World Knowledge Handbook for Writers", ca. 2011), by Miles McCrimmon
  • PDF at saylor.org
  • PDF at saylor.org
• Writing for Success (derived from Creative Commons licensed edition published by Flat World Knowledge, ca. 2011), by Scott McLean (PDF at saylor.org)
• Grandpa! Grandpa! Write Stories to Me! (fourth edition, 2006), by Meyer Moldeven (HTML at AOL)

• Writing as Material Practice: Substance, Surface and Medium (London: Ubiquity Press, c2013), ed. by Kathryn Piquette and Ruth Whitehouse (PDF at Ubiquity Press)
• Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets (Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, c2020), ed. by Philip J. Boyes and Philippa M. Steele
  • PDF files with commentary at JSTOR
  • PDF with commentary at OAPEN
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Beginnings of Writing (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895), by Walter James Hoffman, contrib. by Frederick Starr
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• An Examination of the Ancient Orthography of the Jews, and of the Original State of the Text of the Hebrew Bible (3 parts in 4 inconsistently numbered volumes; London: Whittaker and Co., 1835-1856), by Charles William Wall
  • Part the first: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part the second; volume 2 (1st volume of this part): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part the second; volume 3 (2nd volume of this part): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Part the third (only volume 1 of this part published): multiple formats at Google
  • Parts 1 and 2 (3 volumes): page images at HathiTrust
• The Story of the Alphabet (London: G. Newnes, Ltd., 1900), by Edward Clodd (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of the Alphabet (Baltimore: N. T. A. Munder and Co., c1921), by Otto F. Ege
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Universal Palaeography: or, Fac-Similes of Writings of All Nations and Periods (2 volumes; London: H. G. Bohn, 1849), by M. Champollion-Figeac, Aimé-Louis Champollion-Figeac, Jean-François Champollion, and J. B. Silvestre, ed. by Frederic Madden (page images at HathiTrust)

• Classification and Identification of Handwriting (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1922), by Clarence D. Lee and R. A. Abbey
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• L'Expertise en Écritures: Étude Théorique et Pratique (in French; 1907), by Pierre Humbert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Applied Grammatology: Post(e)-Pedagogy from Jacques Derrida to Joseph Beuys (originally published 1985; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Gregory L. Ulmer (PDF files with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Ames' Guide to Self Instruction in Practical and Artistic Penmanship (1894), by Daniel T. Ames (multiple formats at archive.org)
• New Spencerian Compendium of Penmanship (New York and Chicago: Ivison, Blakeman and Co., c1879) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Constructed Roman Alphabet: A Geometric Analysis of the Roman Alphabet, Including the Greek Characters and the Arabic Numerals, by David Lance Goines (illustrated HTML at goines.net)

• How to Use Duplicating Machines (New York et al.: Gregg Pub. Co., c1945), by E. W. Alexander (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manual On Methods of Reproducing Research Materials: A Survey Made for the Joint Committee on Materials for Research of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies (Ann Arbor: Edwards Bros., 1936), by Robert C. Binkley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Military Cryptanalysis (4 volumes originally issued 1938-1941; declassified version published 2005), by William F. Friedman (PDF files at nsa.gov)
• Mathematics and Computation: A Theory Revolutionizing Technology and Science (prepublication version, c2019), by Avi Wigderson (PDF with commentary at ias.edu)
• Cryptography and Data Security (Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley, c1982), by Dorothy Elizabeth Robling Denning (PDF at npos.edu)
• Cracking DES: Secrets of Encryption Research, Wiretap Politics and Chip Design (1998), by Electronic Frontier Foundation (HTML at cryptome.org and other sites)
• Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society (prepublication copy), ed. by Kenneth Dam and Herbert Lin (HTML and page images at NAP)
• Cracking Codes with Python, by Al Sweigart (illustrated HTML with commentary at inventwithpython.com)
• The Mathematical and Philosophical Works Of the Right Reverend John Wilkins (London: Printed for J. Nicholson, 1708), by John Wilkins (page images at Google)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.