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Total number of records: 696

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Books and printed items475
Archives215
Objects5
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection400
English Literature126
Leeds Poetry118
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection59
Herbert Read Collection48
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive40
Leeds Russian Archive17
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History6
Ripon Cathedral6
Incunabula5

Top 10: Subject

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printing311
proofs (printing)115
print media67
incunabula65
prints46
correspondence36
printers36
printing, hebrew34
books32
type and type-founding32

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London, United Kingdom43
Great Britain17
England15
Europe6
Bristol (England)5
Gloucestershire (England)5
Berlin (Germany)4
France4
Vienna, Austria4
Italy3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)37
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)26
Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)26
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847)23
Crossley-Holland, Kevin22
Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)15
Haebler, Konrad (1857-1946)15
Campbell, Marinus Frederik Andries Gerardus (1819-1890)14
Ames, Joseph (1689-1759)11
Pollard, Alfred W (1859-1944)11

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From 1800197
From 1900481
From 200018

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Up to 1899185
Up to 1999479
Up to latest32

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How to distinguish prints

Hubbard, Hesketh (1892-1957)

1926

Includes bibliographies and glossarial index.

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A history of the art of printing : from its invention to its wide-spread development in the middle of the 16th century : preceded by a short account of the origin of the alphabet and the successive methods of recording events and multiplying ms. books before the invention of printing

Humphreys, Henry Noel (1810-1879)

1867

"The first issue consists of 300 numbered copies... After their dispersion, a small second issue will be made, and the stones are guaranteed then to be destroyed"--Slip tipped in LC copy.

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Gutenberg and the Strasbourg documents of 1439 : an interpretation

Fuhrmann, Otto W; Laborde, Léon marquis de (1807-1869); Kredel, Fritz (1900-1973)

1940

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Dansk typografisk atlas, 1482-1600

Nielsen, Lauritz Christian (1871-1947); Carlsbergfondet (Copenhagen, Denmark)

1934

"Udgivet med understøttelse af Carlsbergfondet."

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Journal of the printing-office at Strawberry Hill : now first printed from the MS of Horace Walpole

Walpole, Horace (1717-1797); Toynbee, Paget Jackson (1855-1932); Strawberry Hill Press

1923

Ed. limited to 650 copies.

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Seconda giunta al Lexicon typographicum Italiae

Parenti, Marino (1900-1963); Fumagalli, Giuseppe (1863-1939)

1949

333 copies printed.

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Nuova giunta al Lexicon typographicum Italiae

Parenti, Marino (1900-1963); Fumagalli, Giuseppe (1863-1939)

1941

Limited edition of 330 copies.

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