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• Printing -- United States

• Illustration (delisted 13 Jan 2021; legible free online issues withdrawn by publisher), ed. by Dan Zimmer

• The Art & Practice of Typography: A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement, by Edmund G. Gress (Gutenberg ebook)
• Pioneer Imprints from Fifty States, by Roger J. Trienens and Library of Congress (Gutenberg ebook)

• Sketches of Printers and Printing in Colonial New York (New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1895), by Charles R. Hildeburn (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Harper Establishment: or, How the Story Books Are Made (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1855), by Jacob Abbott (illustrated HTML at merrycoz.org)

• An address delivered at the annual meeting of the Historical society of Pennsylvania. (Philadelphia : King & Baird, printers, 1869), by Horatio Gates Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• Benjamin Franklin, Printer (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page and Co., for the Associated advertising clubs of the world, 1917), by John Clyde Oswald (multiple formats at archive.org)

• American Drawings and Watercolors (Robert Lehman Collection series v8; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1992), by Carol Clark (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Drawings and Watercolors (Robert Lehman Collection series v8; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1992), by Carol Clark (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Historic American Buildings Survey of the National Park Service and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia announce the ... Charles E. Peterson Prize : a student competition of measured drawings. (Washington, D.C. : The Survey), by Athenaeum of Philadelphia and Historic American Buildings Survey (page images at HathiTrust)

• Eighteenth-Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1990), by Jacob Bean and William Griswold (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Jacob Bean and Lawrence Turčić (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• One Hundred European Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964), by Jacob Bean (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Eighteenth-Century Italian Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1981), by George Szabó (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Pastels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1989), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), contrib. by Doreen Bolger, Mary Wayne Fritzsche, Jacqueline Hazzi, Marjorie Shelley, Gail Stavitsky, Mary L. Sullivan, Marc Vincent, and Elizabeth Wylie (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Eighteenth-Century French Drawings in New York Collections (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), by Perrin Stein and Mary Tavener Holmes (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Italian Eighteenth-Century Drawings (Robert Lehman Collection series v6; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1987), by James Byam Shaw, contrib. by George Knox (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide to the Collections: Prints (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Port of New York: Essays on Fourteen American Moderns (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1924), by Paul Rosenfeld, illust. by Alfred Stieglitz, Alice Boughton, Paul Strand, and Dana Desboro (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fifteenth Annual Exhibition of American Paintings at Gill's Art Galleries, Springfield, Mass., 1892 (c1892), by James Dwyer Gill
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust

• France in the Golden Age: Seventeenth-Century French Paintings in American Collections (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1982), by Pierre Rosenberg (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1994), by H. Barbara Weinberg, Doreen Bolger, and David Park Curry (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)

• American Impressionist and Realist Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz, Exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19 April through 3 June 1973 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1973), by Dianne H. Pilgrim, contrib. by John K. Howat (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Home Book of the Picturesque: or, American Scenery, Art, and Literature (HTML at LOC)

• Painting in general. By James L. Walker, Market-Street, near the Court-House Baltimore, Sign of the Painting Muse. (Baltimore: : Printed by Philip Edwards, in Market-Street, nearly opposite the card manufactory., [1792]), by James L. Walker (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Painting in general. By James L. Walker, Market-Street, near the Court-House Baltimore, Sign of the Painting Muse. (Baltimore: : Printed by Philip Edwards, in Market-Street, nearly opposite the card manufactory., [1792]), by James L. Walker (HTML at Evans TCP)

• Masterpieces of Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Greenwich, CT: Dist. by the New York Graphic Society, 1970), by Edith Appleton Standen and Thomas M. Folds, contrib. by Claus Virch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born before 1865: A Summary Catalogue (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995), by Katharine Baetjer (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Masterpieces of American Painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Random House, c1986), by Margaretta M. Salinger, contrib. by John K. Howat (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)
• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Florentine School (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (Volume 1: page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: North Italian School (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, 1985), by Charles S. Moffett (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Sienese and Central Italian Schools (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Venetian School (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1973), by Federico Zeri and Elizabeth E. Gardner (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Egyptian Wall Paintings: The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Collection of Facsimiles (adapted from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 36, no. 4 (Spring, 1979); New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), by Charles Kyrle Wilkinson and Marsha Hill (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Italian Paintings in the Robert Lehman Collection (Robert Lehman collection series, v1; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; Princeton: Princeton University Press, c1987), by John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, contrib. by Laurence B. Kanter (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Glass in the Collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1982), ed. by Jane Hayward (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Printing in relation to graphic art / by George French. (Cleveland : Imperial Press, 1903), by George French (page images at HathiTrust)
• Printing in Relation to Graphic Art, by George French (Gutenberg ebook)

• 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 American Printer: A Manual of Typography: Containing practical directions for managing all departments of a printing office, as well as complete instructions for apprentices; with several useful tables, numerous schemes for imposing forms in every variety, hints to authors, etc., by Thomas MacKellar (Gutenberg ebook)
• Paper and Printing Recipes: A Handy Volume of Practical Recipes, Concerning the Every-Day Business of Stationers, Printers, Binders, and the Kindred Trades, by John Sawtelle Ford (Gutenberg ebook)

• Bukresco college annual guide; (Louisville, Ky., Bush-Krebs co., incorporated, [c1922]), by Bertram M. Capper (page images at HathiTrust)

• Style Manual: An Official Guide to the Form and Style of Federal Government Printing (2016), by United States Government Printing Office (PDF files at govinfo.gov)
• The U. S. Government Printing Office Style Manual: An Official Guide to the Form and Style of Federal Government Printing (2008), by United States Government Printing Office (PDF files at govinfo.gov)
• Manual of Style Governing Composition and Proof Reading in the Government Printing Office, by United States. Government Printing Office (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Art & Practice of Typography: A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement, by Edmund G. Gress (Gutenberg ebook)

• Investigation of paper prices. (Washington, Govt. print. off., 1916), by 1st session United States. 64th Congress (page images at HathiTrust)
• Manual of Style Governing Composition and Proof Reading in the Government Printing Office, by United States. Government Printing Office (Gutenberg ebook)

• Manual of Style Governing Composition and Proof Reading in the Government Printing Office, by United States. Government Printing Office (Gutenberg ebook)

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