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• Condensed catalogue of manuscripts, books and engravings on exhibition at the Caxton celebration [electronic resource] : held under the auspices of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal at the Mechanics' Hall, on the 26th, 27th, and 29th June, 1877, in commemoration of the 400th anniversary of the introduction of printing into England. ([Montreal? : s.n.], 1877), by Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Montreal (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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

• American Library Association exhibit : Paris Exposition 1900, Social Economy Building ... / (Albany : [s.n.], 1900), by New York State Library, American Library Association, and France) Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bibliotheksausstellung der American Library Association : (Kongresses- und Sozialökonomiegebäude Place de l'Alma) / (Albany : [s.n.], 1900), by Arnold J. F. Van Laer, New York State Library, American Library Association, and France) Exposition universelle internationale de 1900 (Paris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Beginnings : an exhibition in the Great Hall of landmarks in the exploration of ideas and places from the collections of the Library of Congress. (Washington : The Library, 1976), by Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Something so horrible : The Springfield Race Riot of 1908 / (Springfield, IL : Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation, 2008), by Carole Merritt and Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library Foundation (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of Congress exhibits. ([Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress, [1958]), by Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Katalog der ersten ausstellung der Maximilian-gesellschaft : wertvolle bücher aus dem besitz von mitgliedern der Gesellschaft. Berlin, 2. märz bis 30, april 1913 im ausstellungssaal der Bibliothek des Königl. kunstgewerge-museums. ([Berlin : O. v. Holten, 1913]), by Maximilian-Gesellschaft (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Katalog der zweiten austellung für die Maximilian-gesellschaft : ([Berlin? : Reichsdruckerei, 1913]), by Germany) Königliche Hausbibliothek (Berlin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Deutsche Unterrichts-ausstellung in Chicago 1893. Special-katalog der Bibliotheks-Ausstellung (Gruppe IX der Universitäts-ausstellung). (Berlin [Druck von Trowitzsch & Sohn], 1893), by Arnim Graesel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Final report on the CLR grant for the Library-21 Project / (Chicago, Ill. : American Library Association, 1962), by Joseph Becker and American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recruitment and training of staff and support of staff dissemination activities at the American Library Association, (Seattle, 1963), by University of Washington. School of Librarianship, Irving Lieberman, Robert M. Hayes, and Gordon P. Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The library at the exposition; a survey of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in the interest of the American Library Association and affiliated organization. (San Francisco, 1915), by Harold L. Leupp and American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• Exhibits in ARL libraries / (Washington, D.C. : Association of Research Libraries, Office of Management Studies, 1986), by Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• Impressions of the Leipzig exposition and the opening of the A.L.A. exhibit. ([New York, 1914]), by Theodore Wesley Koch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Library of Congress exhibits. ([Washington, D.C.] : Library of Congress, [1959]), by Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Florentine Book Fair; The Book Section of the Exposition of Decorative Arts; The German Book Exhibit at Columbia University: Notes Gathered by Theodore Wesley Koch (Evanston, IL: Printed for subscribers, 1926), by Theodore Wesley Koch (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Florentine Book Fair; The Book Section of the Exposition of Decorative Arts; The German Book Exhibit at Columbia University: Notes Gathered by Theodore Wesley Koch (Evanston, IL: Printed for subscribers, 1926), by Theodore Wesley Koch (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 Book: Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, From Gutenberg to the Present Time (London: H. Grevel and Co., 1890), by Henri Bouchot (page images at CMU)
• The Printed Book: Its History, Illustration and Adornment: From the Days of Gutenberg to the Present Time, by Henri Bouchot, trans. by E. C. Bigmore (Gutenberg ebook)
• Books Before Typography: A Primer of Information About the Invention of the Alphabet and the History of Book-Making up to the Invention of Movable Types: Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #49, by Frederick W. Hamilton (Gutenberg ebook)

• Image, Knife, and Gluepot: Early Assemblage in Manuscript and Print (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), by Kathryn M. Rudy (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and Translations, by Alfred W. Pollard, contrib. by Richard Garnett (Gutenberg ebook)

• Choffard, by Vera Salomons (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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
• The Reign of the Manuscript, by Perry Wayland Sinks (Gutenberg ebook)

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

• Glossator (2009-) (full serial archives)

• A History of the Art of Bookbinding: With Some Account of the Books of the Ancients (London: E. Stock, 1894), ed. by William Salt Brassington, contrib. by John Hannett (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

• Piety in Pieces: How Medieval Readers Customized their Manuscripts (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2016), by Kathryn M. Rudy (PDF and HTML with commentary at Open Book Publishers)

• A World of Fiction: Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2018), by Katherine Bode (multiple formats at fulcrum.org)

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Managing Readers: Printed Marginalia in English Renaissance Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by William W. E. Slights (page images at HathiTrust)

• Charles Dickens as a Reader, by Charles Kent (Gutenberg ebook)

• Old English Libraries: The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages, by Ernest Albert Savage (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Literature as Recreation in the Later Middle Ages (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Glending Olson (PDF and EPub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014), by Matt Erlin (Epub and PDF at Cornell Open)

• Necessary Luxuries: Books, Literature, and the Culture of Consumption in Germany, 1770-1815 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2014), by Matt Erlin (Epub and PDF at Cornell Open)
• Building a National Literature: The Case of Germany, 1830-1870 (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c1989), by Peter Uwe Hohendahl, trans. by Renate Franciscono
  • PDF files at Project MUSE
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• The Old Printer and the Modern Press (London: J. Murray, 1854), by Charles Knight
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)

• Licensing Entertainment: The Elevation of Novel Reading in Britain, 1684-1750 (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by William Beatty Warner (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Making the Modern Reader: Cultural Mediation in Early Modern Literary Anthologies, by Barbara M. Benedict (HTML at Princeton)
• Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century: With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction, by John Ashton (Gutenberg ebook)

• The English Common Reader: A Social History of the Mass Reading Public, 1800-1900 (second edition; Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Richard D. Altick, contrib. by Jonathan Rose (PDF at Ohio State)

• Books Condemned to be Burnt (London: E. Stock, 1892), by James Anson Farrer
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Books of the Brave: Being an Account of Books and of Men in the Spanish Conquest and Settlement of the Sixteenth-Century New World (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Irving A. Leonard (HTML at UC Press)

• Prices of Books: An Inquiry into the Changes in the Price of Books which have occurred in England at different Periods, by Henry B. Wheatley (Gutenberg ebook)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.