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Books about Printing -- Books by Printing

Books about Printing:

• Wesen und Bedeutung der Graphischen Künste für den Illustrations- und Kartendruck: Vortrag, Gehalten Bei der Öffentlichen Preisvertheilung am 11. Dezember 1896 in der Aula der Herzogl. Technischen Hochschule (in German; Hamburg: Verl.-Anst. und Druckerei A.-G. (vormals J. F. Richter), 1898), by Carl Koppe (PDF and page images in Germany)
• The Florentine Book Fair; The Book Section of the Exposition of Decorative Arts; The German Book Exhibit at Columbia University: Notes Gathered by Theodore Wesley Koch (Evanston, IL: Printed for subscribers, 1926), by Theodore Wesley Koch (page images at HathiTrust)

• McMurtrie Imprints: A Bibliography of Separately Printed Writings by Douglas C. McMurtrie on Printing and its History in the United States and Elsewhere, on Typography and Printing Practice, on Type Design and Typefounding, on Bibliography and Bibliographical Practice, and on a Variety of Subjects (Hattiesburg, MS: Privately printed for The Book Farm, 1942), by Charles F. Heartman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Book Arts (2 volumes; Chicago: Newberry Library, 1919-1920), by Newberry Library (page images at HathiTrust)

• Printing and Book Publishing in China (Book Developments #10; Karachi: Unesco Regional Office for Book Development in Asia and the Pacific, 1985), by Wu Hengkang (multiple formats at archive.org)

• A Dictionary of Printers and Printing: With the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern, Bibliographical Illustrations, Etc. Etc. (London: H. Johnson; et al., 1839), by C. H. Timperley
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Dictionary of the Art of Printing (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1841), by William Savage (HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• A Dictionary of Typography (online visual edition based on Southward's first and second editions of 1870 and 1875), by John Southward, ed. by Nicholas Rougeux (illustrated HTML at c82.net)
• The Printers' Vocabulary: A Collection of Some 2500 Technical Terms, Phrases, Abbreviations and Other Expressions Mostly Relating to Letterpress Printing, Many of Which Have Been in Use Since the Time of Caxton (London: The Chiswick Press, 1888), by Charles Thomas Jacobi
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • dictionary portion only: HTML at fromoldbooks.org

• Mechanick Exercises: or, the Doctrine of Handy-Works (2 volumes; London: Printed for the author, 1683), by Joseph Moxon
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2 (on printing): illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
• Moxon's Mechanick Exercises, or the Doctrine of Handy-Works Applied to the Art of Printing: A Literal Reprint in Two Volumes of the First Edition Published in the Year 1683, With Preface and Notes by Theo. L. De Vinne (2 volumes; New York: Typothetae of the City of New-York, 1896), by Joseph Moxon, ed. by Theodore Low De Vinne
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML

• Early American Printing: An Exhibition at the William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan (Bulletin #15; Ann Arbor: Printed at the Alumni Press, University of Michigan, 1927), by William L. Clements Library, contrib. by Randolph Greenfield Adams
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press, Oxford (fifteenth edition; London: Henry Frowde, 1904), by Horace Hart (page images and partial HTML in the UK)

• Printing Types: Their History, Forms and Use (digital edition, based on the 1922 and 1937 editions with links to digital copies of cited editions; 2025), by Daniel Berkeley Updike, ed. by Nicholas Rougeux (illustrated HTML at c82.net)
• 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 Golden Book: The Story of Fine Books and Bookmaking, Past and Present (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927), by Douglas C. McMurtrie
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • 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)

• Paul and the Printing Press (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1920), by Sara Ware Bassett, illust. by A. O. Scott (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• The Inland Printer (partial serial archives)
• The American Printer (partial serial archives)
• Bradley, His Book (1896-1897 (does not include unauthorized, spurious "Feb 1897" issue)), ed. by Will Bradley (full serial archives)
• The British Printer (partial serial archives)
• National Printer Journalist (partial serial archives)

• The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead (1998), by James A. Dewar (HTML at rand.org)

• Specimen Book of Printing Types (1858), by Chas. T. White & Co. (page images at ohiomemory.org)
• Bookmaking on the Distaff Side (1937), ed. by Distaff Side (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Art of the Book: A Review of Some Recent European and American Work in Typography, Page Decoration and Binding, ed. by Charles Holme, contrib. by Bernard H. Newdigate, Douglas Cockerell, Ludwig Deubner, E. A. Taylor, A. S. Levetus, August Brunius, and William Dana Orcutt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Book of Architectural and Decorative Drawings (New York: Architectural Book Pub. Co., 1914), by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (page images at HathiTrust)

• Chicago Manual of Style, by University of Chicago Press (multiple editions)

• Establishing and Operating a Small Print Shop (Industrial (Small Business) series #56; Washington: US Dept. of Commerce, ca. 1946), by Harold B. Rodier
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Art of the Book: A Review of Some Recent European and American Work in Typography, Page Decoration and Binding, ed. by Charles Holme, contrib. by Bernard H. Newdigate, Douglas Cockerell, Ludwig Deubner, E. A. Taylor, A. S. Levetus, August Brunius, and William Dana Orcutt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Book of Architectural and Decorative Drawings (New York: Architectural Book Pub. Co., 1914), by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Color Printer (based on an 1892 edition), by John F. Earhart, ed. by Nicholas Rougeux (illustrated HTML at c82.net)
• Colour Printing and Colour Printers (London: Sir I. Pitman and Sons, 1910), by R. M. Burch, contrib. by William Gamble (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colour Printing and Colour Printers (New York: Baker and Taylor Co., 1910), by R. M. Burch, contrib. by William Gamble (multiple formats at archive.org)
• English Coloured Books, by Martin Hardie (page images at CMU)
• Technique of the Silk Screen Process (New York: New York City WPA Art Project, ca. 1939), by Anthony Velonis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Traicté des Manieres de Graver en Taille Douce sur l'Airin, par le Moyen des Eaux Fortes, et des Vernix Durs et Mols (in French; Paris: Bosse, 1645), by Abraham Bosse (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Vignelli Canon (ca. 2008), by Massimo Vignelli (PDF at vignelli.com)
• The Art of Spacing: A Treatise on the Proper Distribution of White Space in Typography (Chicago: Inland Printer, 1926), by Samuel A. Bartels (multiple formats at Google)

• TeX for the Impatient, by Paul W. Abrahams, Karl Berry, and Kathryn A. Hargreaves
  • PDF at ctan.org
  • TeX files at ctan.org

• The Commemoration in Louisville of the 500th Anniversary of the Invention of Printing: An Interview Broadcast Over Station WAVE, Louisville, Ky., October 20, 1940, 10:15 to 10:30 P.M. (Louisville: Louisville Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1940), by Douglas C. McMurtrie, contrib. by Joseph D. Scholtz, C. Frank Mann, and William C. Lutz (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Commemoration in Louisville of the 500th Anniversary of the Invention of Printing: An Interview Broadcast Over Station WAVE, Louisville, Ky., October 20, 1940, 10:15 to 10:30 P.M. (Louisville: Louisville Club of Printing House Craftsmen, 1940), by Douglas C. McMurtrie, contrib. by Joseph D. Scholtz, C. Frank Mann, and William C. Lutz (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Art of the Book: A Review of Some Recent European and American Work in Typography, Page Decoration and Binding, ed. by Charles Holme, contrib. by Bernard H. Newdigate, Douglas Cockerell, Ludwig Deubner, E. A. Taylor, A. S. Levetus, August Brunius, and William Dana Orcutt (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A Constructed Roman Alphabet: A Geometric Analysis of the Roman Alphabet, Including the Greek Characters and the Arabic Numerals, by David Lance Goines (illustrated HTML at goines.net)

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Books in the extended shelves:

• Printing: Style manual of the California State Printing Office. (Calif. State Print. Off., 1929), also by California. State Printing Office (page images at HathiTrust)

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