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• The Legendary History of the Cross: A Series of Sixty-Four Woodcuts From a Dutch Book Published by Veldener, A.D. 1483 (London: T. F. Unwin, 1887), ed. by John Ashton, contrib. by S. Baring-Gould, Jacobus de Voragine, and William Caxton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Boke of Saint Albans (London: E. Stock, ca. 1901), by Juliana Berners, contrib. by William Blades
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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• A Checklist of American Copies of "Short-Title Catalogue" Books (second edition; Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1950), ed. by William Warner Bishop (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early Illustrated Books: A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries (third edition; New York: Empire State Book Company, 1927), by Alfred W. Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Early Illustrated Books: A History of the Decoration and Illustration of Books in the 15th and 16th Centuries (second edition; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co.; New York: E.P. Dutton and Co., 1917), by Alfred W. Pollard
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at arcthive.org

• Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (full serial archives)

• The Prologues and Epilogues of William Caxton (EETS original series #176; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1928), by William Caxton, ed. by W. J. B. Crotch
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • 1956 reprint: multiple formats at archive.org
• William Caxton, the First English Printer: A Biography (new edition; London: W. Clowes and sons; Hardwick and Bogue, 1877), by Charles Knight (multiple formats at archive.org)
• 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

• Italian Music Incunabula: Printers and Type (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Mary Kay Duggan (HTML at UC Press)
• The Introduction of Printing Into Italy (reprinted from The Inland Printer; Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1930), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Annales de l'Imprimerie des Alde: ou Histoire des Trois Manuce et de Leurs Éditions (2 volumes in French; Paris: A. A. Renouard, 1803), by Ant. Aug. Renouard (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue of Incunabula in the University Libraries, Grand Valley State University (2 volumes; Allendale, MI: University Libraries, Grand Valley State University, c2019), by Robert Beasecker
  • Part One (Complete editions): PDF at gvsu.edu
  • Part Two (Leaves and fragments): PDF at gvsu.edu
• Fifty at Fifty: A Catalogue of Incunabula in the University Libraries, Grand Valley State University (Allendale, MI: University Libraries, Grand Valley State University, 2010), by Robert Beasecker (PDF at gvsu.edu)

• Spanische und Portugiesische Bücherzeichen des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts (in German; Strassburg: Heitz, 1898), by Konrad Haebler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Spanische und Portugiesische Bücherzeichen des XV. und XVI. Jahrhunderts (in German; Strassburg: Heitz, 1898), by Konrad Haebler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Catalogue of Incunabula in the University Libraries, Grand Valley State University (2 volumes; Allendale, MI: University Libraries, Grand Valley State University, c2019), by Robert Beasecker
  • Part One (Complete editions): PDF at gvsu.edu
  • Part Two (Leaves and fragments): PDF at gvsu.edu
• Fifty at Fifty: A Catalogue of Incunabula in the University Libraries, Grand Valley State University (Allendale, MI: University Libraries, Grand Valley State University, 2010), by Robert Beasecker (PDF at gvsu.edu)

• Il Clarissimo Poeta Ovidio De arte Amandí Libro Primo Chominza (Hain 12226, in Italian; printed in Italy before 1480), by Ovid (multiple formats at Dartmouth Digital Collections)

• 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)

• Inheritance of Night: Early Drafts of Lie Down in Darkness (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1993), by William Styron, contrib. by James L. W. West (page images at HathiTrust)
• Edgar Allan Poe Letters Till Now Unpublished, in the Valentine Museum, Richmond, Virginia (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1925), by Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by Mary Newton Stanard (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Beowulf: Autotypes of the Unique Cottom Ms. Vitellius A XV in the British Museum, With a Transliteration and Notes (EETS original series #77; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by N. Trubner, 1882), ed. by Julius Zupitza (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Appendix Codicum Celeberrimorum Sinaitici, Vaticani, Alexandrini; Cum Imitatione Ipsorum Antiqua Manu Scriptorum (Greek manuscript facsimiles with Latin commentary; Leipzig: Giesecke et Devrient, 1867), ed. by Constantin von Tischendorf (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History, Delivered at the Catholic University of Ireland, During the Sessions of 1855 and 1856 (Dublin: W. Hinch and P. Traynoe, 1878), by Eugene O'Curry (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Calendar of St. Willibrord, from Ms. Paris Lat. 10837: A Facsimile, With Transcription, Introduction, and Notes (calendar in Latin, commentary in English; Henry Bradshaw Society publication series v55; London: Harrison and Sons, 1918), ed. by H. A. Wilson, contrib. by Saint Willibrord (page images at HathiTrust)

• Modern Bookbinding Practically Considered: A Lecture Read Before the Grolier Club of New-York, March 25, 1885, With Additions and New Illustrations (New York: The Grolier Club, 1889), by William Matthews (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On Art Binding: A Monograph (Memphis: S. C. Toof and Co., 1904), by Otto Zahn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Royal English Bookbindings (London: Seeley and Co.; New York: Macmillan, 1896), by Cyril Davenport (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Book of Common Prayer, King James, Anno 1604, Commonly Called the Hampton Court Book (facsimile reprint of the 1604 edition published by R. Barker; London: W. Pickering, 1844), by Church of England (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Märchen des Papyrus Westcar (2 volumes, in Egyptian and German; Berlin: W. Spemann, 1890), ed. by Adolf Erman
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • both volumes: multiple formats at archive.org

• Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, Reproduced in Facsimile From the Unique Ms. Cotton Nero A.x in the British Museum (EETS original series #162; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Pres, 1923), ed. by Israel Gollancz (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, Reproduced in Facsimile From the Unique Ms. Cotton Nero A.x in the British Museum (EETS original series #162; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Pres, 1923), ed. by Israel Gollancz (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Acta et Processus Canonizationis Sanctae Birgittae: Codex Holmiensis A 14 (facsimile of Latin handwritten text, with introduction by Collijn in Swedish and French; Handskrifter Fràn Sveriges Medeltid #1; 1920), contrib. by Isak Collijn
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
  • page images at Harvard
• Gai Codex Rescriptus in Bibliotheca Capitulari Ecclesiae Cathedralis Verenensis Distinctus Numero XV (13), Cura et Studio Eiusdem Bibliothecae Custodis, Phototypice Expressus (in Latin; Leipzig: K. W. Hiersemann, 1909), by Gaius, contrib. by Antonio Spagnolo and Saint Jerome (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Disputationes Camaldulenses (Latin manuscript facsimile with pages in reverse order; ca. 1474), by Cristoforo Landino (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Cloisters Apocalypse: An Early Fourteenth-Century Manuscript in Facsimile (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971), contrib. by Florens Deuchler, Jeffrey Hoffeld, and Helmut Nickel (PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, Reproduced in Facsimile From the Unique Ms. Cotton Nero A.x in the British Museum (EETS original series #162; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Pres, 1923), ed. by Israel Gollancz (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Codex Fejérváry-Mayer: An Old Mexican Picture Manuscript in the Liverpool Free Public Museums (12014/M) (Berlin and London, 1901-1902), ed. by Eduard Seler, trans. by A. H. Keane
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some images stripped out
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Anvari's Divan: A Pocket Book for Akbar (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1983), by Annemarie Schimmel and Stuart Cary Welch (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Historia General del Piru: Facsimile of J. Paul Getty Museum Ms. Ludwig XIII 16 (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, c2003), by Martín de Murúa (page images and PDF with commentary at getty.edu and Google)

• Palestinian Syriac Texts From Palimpsest Fragments in the Taylor-Schechter Collection (London: C.J. Clay and Sons, 1900), ed. by Agnes Smith Lewis and Margaret Dunlop Gibson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Basil Ringrose, ed. by Derek Howse and Norman Joseph William Thrower (HTML at UC Press)

• A Buccaneer's Atlas: Basil Ringrose's South Sea Waggoner (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Basil Ringrose, ed. by Derek Howse and Norman Joseph William Thrower (HTML at UC Press)

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