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• Bibliolohychni visty (Perevydanni͡a Lʹvivsʹkoï naukovoï biblioteky im. V. Stefanyka NAN Ukraïny, 1923), by Ukraïnsʹkyĭ naukovyĭ instytut knyhoznavstva (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• 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)
• Essai historique sur la liberté d'écrire chez les anciens et au moyen âge. (Crapelet, 1832), by Gabriel Peignot (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of filmstrips and slides illustrating the development of the book (Champaign, Ill., 1954), by Thelma Eaton and Ann De Witt Campo (page images at HathiTrust)
• L'ancienne France. Le livre et les arts qui s'y rattachent depuis les origines jusqu'à la fin du XVIIIe siècle (Firmin-Didot et cie., 1894), by Paul Louisy and P. L. Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• An inquiry into the nature and form of the books of the ancients; with a history of the art of bookbinding, from the times of the Greeks and Romans to the present day interspersed with bibliographical references to men and books of all ages and countries. (R. Groombridge, 1837), by John Hannett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books before typography (Committee on education, United typothetae of America, 1918), by Frederick W. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A history of the art of bookbinding : with some account of the books of the ancients : illustrated with numerous engravings, and photographic reproductions of ancient bindings in colour and monotints (E. Stock, 1894), by William Salt Brassington and John Hannett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le livre français, des origines à la fin du second empire. Exposition au pavillon de Marsan 4 au 30 avril, 1923. (A. Moraneé, 1923), by Paris Congrès des bibliothécaires et des bibliophiles (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book : a lecture sponsored by the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress and the Authors' League of America, presented at the Library of Congress October 17, 1979 (Library of Congress, 1980), by Barbara W. Tuchman, Authors' League of America, and Library of Congress. Center for the Book (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outline for the course in history of books and printing (Library service 103) (New York, 1953), by Columbia University. School of Library Service and Bertha Margaret Frick (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kniga : istoricheskiĭ ocherk (Glavpolitprosvet U.S.S.R., 1923), by N. M. Pakulʹ (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ursprung des Buches und seine Entwicklung. (Verlag für Sprach- und Handelwissenschaft, 1907), by Robert Ludwig Prager (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Toshogaku gairon (Fuzanbō, 1924), by Kei Tanaka (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. (Scribner and Welford, 1890), by Henri Bouchot, Anton Einsle, H. Grevel, and E. C. Bigmore (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les étapes d'un livre (Hachette, 1922), by Léon Thévenin and Georges Lemierre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Le livre. Historique--fabrication--achat--classement--usage et entretien ... (E. Flammarion, 1906), by Albert Cim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kurzgefasste Geschichte des Buchdrucks (Johann August Meissner, 1839), by C. M. Ed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Livre à travers les âges. numéro unique résumant l'histoire du livre depuis les origines de L'Ecriture (Ch. Mendel, 1894), by Georges Brunel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kitap (Matbaa-yı Safa ve Enver, 1893), by Necip Asım (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of the transmission of ancient books to modern times : with The process of historical proof: or, A concise account of the means by which the genuineness off ancient literature generally, and the authenticity of historical works especially, are ascertained; including incidental remarks upon the relative strength of the evidence usually adduced in behalf of the Holy Scriptures (Howell, 1879), by Isaac Taylor (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das schriftwesen im mittelalter (S. Hirzel, 1875), by Wilhelm Wattenbach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Les arts du livre (Société des amis du livre moderne, 1909), by Léon Thévenin and Georges Lemierre (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibliografia (Dalla Società Tipogr. de' Classici Italiani, 1846), by Michael Denis and Antonio Roncetti (page images at HathiTrust)
• The history of books and libraries : two views (Library of Congress, 1986), by John Feather, David McKitterick, and Library of Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• al-Kitābah wa-al-kuttāb (Maṭbaʻat Miṣr, 1910), by ʻAlī Aḥmad Shahīdī (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Istorii︠a︡ knigi ot ee poi︠a︡vlinii︠a︡ do nashikh vremen (Tip. I.M. Komslova, 1900), by Émile Egger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Traitte des plus belles bibliotheques de l'Europe : des premiers livres qui ont été faits : de l'invention de l'imprimerie : des imprimeurs : de plusieurs livres qui ont êté perdus & recouvrez par les soins des sçavans : avec une méthode pour dresser une bibliotheque (Chez Estienne Michallet ..., 1685), by Sieur Le Gallois, Estienne Michallet, and Romeyn de Hooghe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The story of books (McClure, Phillips, 1904), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Histoire du livre a Dol du XVe au VIIIe siècle. Livres d'Heures- Bibliothèque de la cathédrale- Dons d'ouvrages de luxe- Origines de l'imprimerie- État de l'instruction (Impr. Oberthur, 1906), by François Marie Duine (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das bücherwesen im mittelalter : vortrag, gehalten in der aula des stadtgymnasiums zu Riga (C. Habel (C. G. Lüderitz'sche), 1881), by Arthur Poelchau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Syllabus for the study of history of books and printing, for use in connection with Book Arts 281 (School of Library Service, Columbia University, 1937), by Columbia University. School of Library Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• The evolution of the book. (K.L. Sharp, 1901), by Katharine L. Sharp and Ill.) Art Club (Champaign (page images at HathiTrust)
• Outline for the course in history of books and bookmaking (Library service 103). (New York, 1957), by Columbia University. School of Library Service and Bertha Margaret Frick (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• 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 (The Caxton Club, 1905), by Alfred W. Pollard, Richard Garnett, De Vinne Press, and Caxton Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Griechische palaeographie. (B.G. Teubner, 1879), by V. Gardthausen (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Essay on Colophons, with Specimens and Translations, by Alfred W. Pollard, contrib. by Richard Garnett (Gutenberg ebook)

• Bibliothèque ancienne et moderne...Dans lequel sont contenues les tables des auteurs des matières...dans les XXVIII volumes precedens t.29. (Amsterdam [etc.], 1714), by Jean Le Clerc (page images at HathiTrust)
• Christian Gottlieb. Schwarzii, De ornamentis librorvm et varia rei librariae vetervm svpellectile dissertationvm antiqvariarvm hexas. Primvm collegit et recensvit atqve praefatione indicibvsqve necessariis instrvxit Iohann, Christian. Levschnervs ... (ex officina Langenliemiana, 1756), by Christian Gottlieb Schwarz and Johann Christian Leuschner (page images at HathiTrust)

• Memuary k istoriĭ bukhgalteriĭ i pami︠a︡tniki svi︠a︡shchennoĭ stariny. (S.P. I︠A︡kovlev, 1911), by Otto von Bauer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• 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
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• Books and their makers during the middle ages : a study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman empire to the close of the seventeenth century (G.P. Putnam's sons, 1896), by George Haven Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Panoramic chart of the manuscript period in bookmaking, 5th to the 15th centuries. ([Atlanta?], 1948), by Atlanta University. School of Library Service (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das alte buch (R.C. Schmidt & Co., 1921), by Karl Schottenloher (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das buch bei den Griechen und Römern. Eine studie aus der Berliner papyrussammlung (G. Reimer, 1907), by Wilhelm Schubart (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Griechische palaeographie (Veit, 1911), by V. Gardthausen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Latin manuscripts; an elementary introduction to the use of critical editions for high school and college clases (Scott, Foresman, 1897), by Harold Whetstone Johnston (page images at HathiTrust)
• Avviamento allo studio critico delle lettere italiane. (G. C. Sansoni, 1907), by Guido Mazzoni, Giuseppe Vandelli, and Pio 1849 Rajna (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das schriftwesen im mittelalter (S. Hirzel, 1875), by Wilhelm Wattenbach (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Homer of Aristotle (B. Blackwell, 1923), by D. S. Margoliouth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Christian. Gottlieb. Schwarzii, De ornamentis librorvm at varia rei librariae vetervm svpellectile dissertationvm antiqvariarvm hexas (ex officina Langenhemiana, 1756), by Christian Gottlieb Schwarz and Johann Christian Leuschner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Schreib- und Buchwesen einst und jetzt (Quelle & Meyer, 1922), by Albert Schramm (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'escriptura, lo gravat, l'imprempta, lo llibre per Josep Brunet y Bellet ... (Tip. "L'Avenc̜", 1898), by Joseph Brunet y Bellet (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Schrift- und Buchwesen in alter und neuer Zeit (B.G. Teubner, 1910), by Oskar Weise (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bibliothecas eremitarvm vetervm (Typis G.W. Hammi, 1701), by Johann Andreas Schmid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Griechische Paleographie (Veit & Comp., 1911), by V. Gardthausen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Abhandlungen über die Litteratur und Kunstwerke vornemlich des Alterthums (Bey Ulrich Christian Saalbach, 1776), by Johann Friedrich Christ and Johann Carl Zeune (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sopra l'immortale benefizio recato dagli ecclesiastici alla letteratura conservandola nel medio evo; opusculo. (I. Galeati, 1837), by Severino Fabriani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Authors and their public in ancient times; a sketch of literary conditions and of the relations with the public of literary producers, from the earliest times to the invention of printing (G. P. Putnam's sons, 1894), by George Haven Putnam (page images at HathiTrust)
• Zur darstellung von buchrollen auf grabreliefs. (G. Reimer, 1907), by Ernst Pfuhl and Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Livre (Firmin-Didot, 1886), by Paul Louisy and P. L. Jacob (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studien zum althebräischen Buchwesen und zur biblischen Litteraturgeschichte (K.J. Trübner, 1902), by Lajos Blau (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'ancienne France : le livre et les arts qui s'y rattachent depuis les origines jusquà la fin du XVIIIe siècle (Firmin-Didot, 1887), by Paul Louisy, P. L. Jacob, and Firmin-Didot (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte des buchhandels und der buchdruckerkunst. (F. Metz, 1834), by Friederich Metz (page images at HathiTrust)
• The reign of the manuscript (R. G. Badger; [etc., etc., 1917), by Perry Wayland Sinks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Reign of the Manuscript, by Perry Wayland Sinks (Gutenberg ebook)

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