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• [Specimens of printing types] ([London] : [publisher not identified], [between 1792 and 1818?], in the 1790s), by William Caslon (page images at HathiTrust)

• John Baskerville : type-founder and printer, 1706-1775 ([s.n.], 1914), by Josiah H. Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A History of the Old English Letter Foundries: with Notes, Historical and Bibliographical, on the Rise and Progress of English Typography., by Talbot Baines Reed (Gutenberg ebook)

• The Angel Alley Press : a foot note to the history of printing (Angel Alley Press, 1929), by Edwin Osgood Grover (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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• A specimen of printing types (Printed by John Towers, 1764), by William Caslon and Son and William Caslon (page images at HathiTrust)

• A specimen of printing types & various ornaments, 1796, reproduced, together with the Sale catalogue of the British Letter-Foundry 1797 (Printing Historical Society, 1990), by S. & C. Stephenson and James Mosley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A short history of cheap music as exemplified in the records of the house of Novello, Ewer & Co. : with especial reference to the first fifty years of the reign of Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria; with three portraits and a preface by Sir George Grove ... (Novello, Ewer and Co., 1887), by Dance and Music Fredric Woodbridge Wilson Collection of Theater (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the Committee appointed to select the best faces of type and modes of display for government printing. (Printed & Pub. by H.M. Stationery Off., 1922), by Great Britain. Committee on Type Faces and C. W. Bowerman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A newly-discovered broadside specimen of Fell type printed at Oxford about 1685. (Department of Printing and Graphic Arts, Harvard College Library;, 1940), by Philip Hofer and Harvard College Library. Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Typography : the written word and the printed word; some tests for types; concerning printers' flowers; the pioneer work of the Pelican Press; the points of a well-made book; a glossary of printers' terms, type specimens; a display of borders and initials. (Prepared, printed and pub. by the Pelican Press, 1923), by Pelican Press and Francis Meynell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Charles Whittinghams, printers (The Grolier Club, 1896), by Arthur Warren, Joseph Pennell, Frederic W. Goudy Collection (Library of Congress), and Grolier Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typography : type specimens grouped, displayed and numbered for the ease of customers who desire a particular character and size. The written word and the printed word. Some tests for types. Concerning printers' flowers. The pioneer work of the Pelican Press. The points of a well made book. A glossary of printers' terms. Borders and initials. (Prepared, printed and published by the Pelican Press, 2 Carmelite Street, 1926), by Francis Meynell and Pelican Press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• English printers' ornaments, by Henry R. Plomer (Gutenberg ebook)
• Note, that whereas in the returne Quind. Pasce, the number 21 is twice set downe, ... ([S.l. : s.n., 15--?]), by George Alleyn and H. A. (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• A specimen of printing types (s.n., 1785), by William Caslon (page images at HathiTrust)

• The earliest English music printing : a bibliography of English printed music to the close of the sixteenth century (Bibliographical Society, 1903), by Robert Steele (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A true account of the types of His Majesties printing-house, belonging to the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, His Majesties Printer; consisting of several sorts. All added since the year 1694. (Edinburgh, : Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson, Printer to the King's most excellent Majesty, City and Colledge, Anno Dom. 1698), by Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• 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)
• A dictionary of misprints, found in printed books of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Comp. for the use of verbal critics, and especially for those who are engaged in editing the works of Shakespeare and our other early dramatists. (For private circulation only, 1887), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• English printing 1700-1925; a note by Strickland Gibson. (Dulau and company, ltd., 1925), by Strickland Gibson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short history of English printing, 1476-1900 (Empire State Book Company, 1927), by Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The heritage of the modern printer (New York, 1916), by Margaret Bingham Stillwell and New York Public Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• A select bibliography of the principal modern presses, public and private, in Great Britain and Ireland (Published by the club, 1928), by Geoffrey Stewart Tomkinson, Curwen Press, and England) First Edition Club (London (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fifteenth century English books; a bibliography of books and documents printed in England and of books for the English market printed abroad (Printed for the Bibliographical society at the Oxford university press, 1917), by E. Gordon Duff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Books in chains, and other bibliographical papers (E. Stock, 1892), by William Blades (page images at HathiTrust)
• A handy-book about books, for book-lovers, book-buyers, and book sellers. (J. Wilson, 1870), by John Power (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of books in the library of the British museum printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of books in English printed abroad, to the year 1640 ... (By order of the Trustees, 1884), by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books, Gregory W. Eccles, and George Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• A transcript of the registers of the Company of Stationers of London, 1554-1640, A.D. Edited by Edward Arber. (P. Smith, 1950), by Stationers' Company (London, England) and Edward Arber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notes on printers and booksellers, with a chapter on chap books. (London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & co., ltd.; [etc., etc.], 1900), by Charles Gerring (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• ... A brief history of printing in England, a short history of printing in England from Caxton to the present time (Pub. by the Committee on education, United typothetae of America, 1918), by Frederick W. Hamilton (page images at HathiTrust)
• The revival of printing; a bibliographical catalogue of works issued by the chief modern English presses (by Macmillan & Co., ltd, and Philip Lee Warner, publisher to the Medici Society ltd., 1912), by Robert Steele (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A history of the old English letter foundries, with notes, historical and bibliographical, on the rise and progress of English typography. (E. Stock, 1887), by Talbot Baines Reed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tokens of the eighteenth century connected with booksellers & bookmakers (authors, printers, publishers, engravers and paper makers) (Longmans, Green and Co., 1916), by W. Longman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A dissertation upon English typographical founders and founderies ... (Grolier club, 1924), by Edward Rowe Mores, Daniel Berkeley Updike, John Nichols, Richard Gough, and Grolier Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• An index of such English books, printed before the year MDC., as are now in the archiepiscopal library at Lambeth. (F. & J. Rivington, 1845), by Lambeth Palace Library and Samuel Roffey Maitland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Typographia, or the Printers' instructor: including an account of the origin of printing, with biographical notices of the printers of England, from Caxton to the close of the sixteenth century: a series of ancient and modern alphabets, and Domesday characters: together with an elucidation of every subject connected with the art. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1824), by J. Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of an exhibition of books, broadsides, proclamations, portraits, autographs, etc. : illustrative of the history and progress of printing and bookselling in England, 1477-1800, held at Stationers' hall 25-29 June, 1912 (Printed by W. Clowes & sons, ltd.], 1912), by International Association of Antiquarian Booksellers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A short history of English printing, 1476-1900 (Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., 1915), by Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A catalogue of the English books printed before MDCI, now in the library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Deighton, Bell, and co., 1885), by Trinity College (University of Cambridge) Library and Robert Sinker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patents for inventions. Abridgments of specifications. Class 100. (London., in the 19th century), by Great Britain. Patent Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Patents for inventions. Abridgments of specifications. Class 101. (London., in the 19th century), by Great Britain. Patent Office (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of a collection of early printed and other books bequeathed to the library by John Couch Adams... (Cambridge, 1902), by Cambridge University Library and John Couch Adams (page images at HathiTrust)
• Modern fine printing in England and Mr. Bruce Rogers (The Carteret Book Club, 1916), by Alfred W. Pollard, Carl Purington Rollins, and Newark Carteret Book Club (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A transcript of the registers of the worshipful Company of Stationers; from 1640-1708 A.D. ... (Priv. Print, 1913), by Stationers' Company (London, England), George Edward Briscoe Eyre, and Roxburghe Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hand-lists of English printers (Bibliographical Society, 1895), by E. Gordon Duff and Bibliographical Society (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Typographical antiquities (William Miller, 1810), by Joseph Ames, Thomas Frognall Dibdin, and William Herbert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Notice of a fragment of the Fifteen oes and other prayers printed at Westminster by W. Caxton about 1490-91. (Macmillan and co., 1877), by Henry Bradshaw (page images at HathiTrust)
• Catalogue of books in the library of the British Museum printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of books in English printed abroad, to the year 1640. (By order of the Trustees, 1884), by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books, Gregory W. Eccles, and George Bullen (page images at HathiTrust)
• English printing, 1476-1900 (Folcroft Library Editions, 1979), by Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The art and craft of printing (Elston press, 1902), by William Morris, Clarke Conwell, and Elston Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• A note by William Morris on his aims in founding the Kelmscott Press : together with a short description of the press by S. C. Cockerell, & an annotated list of the books printed thereat. ([Kelmscott Press], 1898), by William Morris, Sydney Carlyle Cockerell, and Kelmscott Press (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Caxton magazine. : a monthly magazine for the printing, paper, stationery, and allied trades. (Blades, East & Blades, 1901), by London Institute of Printers and Kindred Trades of the British Empire (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Typographia (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green, 1824), by J. Johnson, Bruce Rogers, England) Apollo Press (London, and Hurst Longman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Worshipful Company of Stationers : a short account of its charter, hall, plate, registers & other matters connected with its history (Geo. W. Jones, 1923), by Reginald T. Rivington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The English provincial printers, stationers and bookbinders to 1557, by E. Gordon Duff (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Brief History of Printing in England: A Short History of Printing in England from Caxton to the Present Time, by Frederick W. Hamilton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Art and Craft of Printing, by William Morris (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ordinances decreed for reformation of diuers disorders in printing and vttering of bookes ([London : s.n., 1570?]), by England and Wales Privy Council (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The original and growth of printing ([London? : s.n., 1660?]), by Richard Atkyns (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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