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• Printing -- Hawaii -- History
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• Printing -- Italy -- History
• Printing -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History
• Printing -- New York (State) -- History
• Printing -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- History
• Printing -- Portugal -- History
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• Printing -- United States -- History

• 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 (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1916), by Harry Gidney Aldis (HTML at lostcrafts.com)
• 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)

• A New Light on the Renaissance, Displayed in Contemporary Emblems (London: J. M. Dent and Co., 1909), by Harold Bayley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Transcript of the Registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640, A. D. (5 volumes; London (last volume Birmingham): Privately printed, 1875-1894), by Stationers' Company (London, England), ed. by Edward Arber
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volumes II-V: page images at HathiTrust

• Hand-Lists of Books Printed by London Printers, 1501-1556 (issued in 4 parts, then combined; London: Printed by Blades, East and Blades, for the Bibliographical Society, 1895-1913), by E. Gordon Duff, W. W. Greg, R. B. McKerrow, Henry R. Plomer, Alfred W. Pollard, and Robert Proctor
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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

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

• The Correspondence of Johann Amerbach: Early Printing in its Social Context (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2000), by Johannes Amerbach, ed. by Barbara C. Halporn (page images at HathiTrust)

• A History of the Cambridge University Press, 1521-1921 (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1921), by S. C. Roberts (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 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)

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

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

• 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)

• Modern Street Ballads (1888), ed. by John Ashton (HTML with commentary at staggernation.com)

• Punch's Almanacks (second series, covering 1862-1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Children's Book-A-Day Almanac (online version, updated regularly), by Anita Silvey (illustrated HTML at childrensbookalmanac.com)

• The American Year Book (partial serial archives)
• The World Almanac (partial serial archives)
• The American Year Book and National Register for 1869 (page images at MOA)
• Poor Richard's Almanack (1898 Century Company edition of selections), by Benjamin Franklin (frame-dependent page images at antiquebooks.net)
• The Whig Almanac, and Politician's Register, for 1838 (New York: G. Dearborn and Co., 1838) (page images at Google)

• The Confederate States Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1862 (Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1862), ed. by Thomas O. Summers (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The Atlantic Monthly Almanac (partial serial archives)

• Whitaker's Almanack, contrib. by Joseph Whitaker (partial serial archives)

• L'Ormogna d'Éi Féçouyrié pér lou Bél on d'Éi bon Diéou: 1887 (Occitan-language almanac) (page images at occitanica.eu and Scribd)

• Almanacco Perpetuo di Rutilio Benincasa Cosentino, Illustrate, e Divisio in Cinque Parti, da Ottavio Beltrano (in Italian; Bassano: G.A. Ramondini, 1732), by Rutilio Benincasa, contrib. by Ottavio Beltrano (page images at HathiTrust)

• Almanaque Manila Galante para el Año 1912 (in Spanish and Tagalog; Manila: J. Fajardo, 1912), ed. by José Sedano Calonge
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Calendario Popular Para 1885 (in Spanish; Fregenal: Torrellas, 1884), by Luis Romero y Espinosa (page images at HathiTrust)

• The American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac (full serial archives)
• Improved Lunar Ephemeris, 1952-1959: A Joint Supplement to the American Ephemeris and the (British) Nautical Almanac (Washington: GPO, 1954), by United States Naval Observatory Nautical Almanac Office and Great Britain Nautical Almanac Office (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Confederate States Almanac for the Year of Our Lord 1862 (Nashville: Southern Methodist Publishing House, 1862), ed. by Thomas O. Summers (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• A Pepysian Garland: Black-Letter Broadside Ballads of the Years 1595-1639, Chiefly From the Collection of Samuel Pepys (Cambridge, UK: At the University Press, 1922), ed. by Hyder Edward Rollins and Samuel Pepys
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Chap-Books of the Eighteenth Century, With Facsimiles, Notes, and Introduction (London: Chatto and Windus, 1882), ed. by John Ashton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Child and His Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England (London: W. Gardner, Darton and Co., ca. 1891), by Mrs. E. M. Field (multiple formats at archive.org)

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

• 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)

• 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)

• 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)

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

• 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
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

• 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
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only

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