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• The Introduction of Printing Into Canada: A Brief History (Montreal: Rolland Paper Co., 1930), by Aegidius Fauteux (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Bibliography of Printing in America: Books, Pamphlets and Some Articles in Magazines Relating to the History of Printing in the New World (Boston: The compiler, 1906), by George Thomas Watkins (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Fine Books (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons; London: Methuen and Co., 1912), by Alfred W. Pollard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1929), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)
• 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 HathiTrust
  • page images at CMU
• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press; New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1916), by Harry Gidney Aldis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Printed Book (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1921), by Harry Gidney Aldis (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Story of Books (London: Hodder and Stoughton, n.d.), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Story of Books (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1901), by Gertrude Burford Rawlings
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• 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 Book: Its History and Development (London: A. Constable and Co., 1907), by Cyril Davenport (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

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

• Dot-Font: Talking About Design (text-only version; originally published 2006), by John D. Berry (multiple formats with commentary at dot-font.com)

• Hunt Roman: The Birth of a Type, by Hermann Zapf and Jack Werner Stauffacher (page images at CMU)

• Early Printing in Barbados (London: Privately printed, 1933), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Dendermondsche Drukpers (in Dutch; Dendermonde: F.-J. Du Caju, 1890), by Jan Broeckaert (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Medieval Mirror: Speculum Humanae Salvationis, 1324-1500 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984), by Adrian Wilson and Joyce Lancaster Wilson (illustrated HTML at UC Press)

• Early Printing in Wyoming and the Black Hills (Heartman's Historical Series #67; Hattiesburg, MS: Printed for the Book Farm, 1943), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• The First Printing in British Columbia (Chicago: Privately printed, 1929), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• California Imprints, August 1846-June 1851 (1922), by Henry R. Wagner
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• The Introduction of Printing Into Canada: A Brief History (Montreal: Rolland Paper Co., 1930), by Aegidius Fauteux (multiple formats at archive.org)

• List of Books Printed in Connecticut, 1709-1800 (Hartford: Hartford Press, 1904), by J. Hammond Trumbull, ed. by Annie Eliot Trumbull (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Beginnings of Printing in Abyssinia (extract from The Library; 1930), by S. Gaselee (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The First Printing in Georgia (Metruchen, NJ: Printed for C. F. Heartman, 1927), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• James Johnston, Georgia's First Printer (Savannah: Pigeonhole Press, 1956), by Alexander A. Lawrence, contrib. by Ray Dilley (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Transcript of the Registers of the Worshipful Company of Stationers, From 1640-1708 A. D. (3 volumes; London: Privatly printed, 1913-1914), by Stationers' Company (London, England), ed. by George Edward Briscoe Eyre, contrib. by Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust)

• Printing in Greenland, With a List of Greenland Imprints in the Krabbe Library (Stanford University, CA: Stanford University Press, 1939), by Nathan Van Patten (page images at HathiTrust)

• Ka Pa'i Palapala: Early Printing in Hawaii (Honolulu: Printing Industries of Hawaii, 1973), by A. Grove Day and Albertine Loomis (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Journal of a Canoe Voyage Along the Kauai Palis, Made in 1845; and The History of the Hawaiian Mission Press, With a Bibliography of the Earlier Publications (Papers of the Hawaiian Historical Society #14; Honolulu: Paradise of the Pacific Print, 1908), by Gorham D. Gilman, Howard M. Ballou, and George Robert Carter
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The First Printing in Peoria, Illinois (Chicago: Ludlow Typograph Co., 1929), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• Indiana Imprints, 1804-1849: A Supplement to Mary Alden Walker's "Beginnings of Printing in the State of Indiana," Published in 1934 (Indiana Historical Society Publications, v11 #5; Indianapolis: Indianapolis Historical Society, 1937), by Douglas C. McMurtrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Beginnings of Printing in the State of Indiana: Comprising a Brief Analysis of the Literary Production, and a List of Items Printed to 1850 (Crawfordsville, IN: R. E. Banta, 1934), by Mary Alden Walker (page images at HathiTrust)

• Die Italienischen Buchdrucker- und Verlegerzeichen bis 1525 (in German; Strasbourg: J. H. Heitz (Heitz und Mundel), 1893), by Paul Kristeller
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some figures missing
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Press and Printers of Jamaica Prior to 1820 (reprinted from the Proceeedings of the American Antiquarian Society; Worcester, MA: The Society, 1916), by Frank Cundall (page images at HathiTrust)

• John Bradford, Esq.: Pioneer Kentucky Printer and Historian (Lexington, KY: Winburn Press, 1950), by J. Winston Coleman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The First Printing in Kentucky: Some Account of Thomas Parvin and John Bradford and the Establishment of the Kentucky Gazette in Lexington in the Year 1787, With a Bibliography of Seventy Titles (Louisville: C. T. Dearing Printing Co., 1936), by Willard Rouse Jillson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Pioneer Printer of New Orleans (reprinted from the Southern Printer; Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1930), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (HTML at elfinspell.com)

• Supplement to a Bibliography of Maine Imprints to 1820 (Stonington, ME: Printed by Mrs. and Mr. R.W. Noyes, 1934), by R. Webb Noyes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Bibliography of Maine Imprints to 1820 (Stonington, ME: Printed by Mrs. and Mr. R. W. Noyes, 1930), by R. Webb Noyes (page images at HathiTrust)

• The First Printing in Manitoba (reprinted from the Printing Review of Canada; Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1931), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Early Massachusetts Press, 1638-1711 (2 volumes; Boston: Club of Odd Volumes, 1907), by George Emery Littlefield (page images at HathiTrust)

• Early Printing in Michigan, With a Bibliography of the Issues of the Michigan Press, 1796-1850 (Chicago: John Calhoun Club, 1931), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Bibliography of Mississippi Imprints, 1798-1830 (Heartman's Historical Series #69; Beauvoir Community, MS: The Book Farm, 1945), by Douglas C. McMurtrie, contrib. by Albert H. Allen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The General Epistle of the Latter Day Saints: Dated, Winter Quarters, Nebraska, December 23, 1847, and Constituting the Earliest Known Example of Printing in the Present State of Nebraska (Chicago: Black Cat Press, 1935), by Council of the Twelve Apostles (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints), ed. by Douglas C. McMurtrie, contrib. by Brigham Young (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Beginnings of Printing in New Hampshire (originally published in The Library, 1934), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (original journal printing: multiple formats at archive.org)

• The First Printing in Nova Scotia (reprinted from the Printing Review of Canada; Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1930), by Douglas C. McMurtrie (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Oklahoma Imprints, 1835-1907: A History of Printing in Oklahoma Before Statehood (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1936), by Carolyn Thomas Foreman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The First Century of German Printing in America, 1728-1830; Preceded by a Notice of the Literary Work of F. D. Pastorius (Philadelphia: German Pionier-Verein of Philadelphia, 1893), by Oswald Seidensticker
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats from archive.org
• A Century of Printing: The Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania, 1685-1784 (2 volumes; 1885-1886), by Charles R. Hildeburn
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I (1685-1763): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (1764-1784): multiple formats at archive.org
• List of the Publications Issued in Pennsylvania, 1685 to 1759 (Philadelphia: Collins, 1882), by Charles R. Hildeburn (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Early Printers of Spain and Portugal (illustrated monograph #4; London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1897), by Konrad Haebler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

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