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Total number of records: 47

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Books and printed items46
Archives1

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Brotherton Collection30
Herbert Read Collection3
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History3
Ripon Cathedral2
Leeds Russian Archive1
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

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printing47
books15
printers11
illustration of books8
type and type-founding7
illustrated books6
bookbinding4
decoration and ornament4
engraving4
bibliography3

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England3
Great Britain2
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Chalons-Sur-Marne (France)1
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Nichols, John9
Nichols, John (1745-1826)9
Timperley, Charles Henry9
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall (1776-1847)4
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3
Morison, Stanley (1889-1967)3
Pillement, Jean (1728-1808)3
Pollard, Alfred W (1859-1944)3
Sayer, Robert (1725-1794)3
Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)2

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From 190027
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Marks in books, illustrated and explained

Stoddard, Roger Eliot; Houghton Library

1985

An album of facsimiles, with preface and annotations by Roger E. Stoddard; based on an exhibition held at the Houghton Library beginning Feb. 14, 1984, entitled "Marks in books, shown and explained: a...

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Blank greetings card with illustration of two lovers

c. 1960

Blank undated greetings card with illustration of two figures under the text 'we'll be lovers till the end' and 'this is the end!' printed on the inside. The back records that is is a Forget-Me-Not Ca...

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A chart of Oxford printing, '1468'-1900 : with notes and illustrations

Madan, Falconer (1851-1935); Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)

1904

"Second issue limited to 425 copies, slightly altered and corrected." First issue, "A presentation edition of one hundred copies... Christmas, 1903."

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Graphic design : with special reference to lettering, typography, and illustration

Lewis, John (1912-1996); Brinkley, John

1954

Bibliography: p. 191-193.

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The book : its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time

Bouchot, Henri (1849-1906); Einsle, Anton (1848-1897); Bigmore, E C (1838?-1899); Grevel, H

1890

First English translation by E. C. Bigmore, 1887 has title: The printed book; its history, illustration and adornment.

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Printing of to-day : an illustrated survey of post-war typography in Europe and the United States

Simon, Oliver (1895-1956); Rodenberg, Julius (1884-1970); Warde, Beatrice (1900-1969)

1928

At head of title: Oliver Simon and Julius Rodenberg. "Printed in England at the Curwen press."

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Livre d'or bibliophile

1925-29

1-3 année 1935-1929 Edited and published by la Chambre syndicale des editeurs de livres d'art et de publications a tirage limité, Paris. Consists of specimens of recently published French works...

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Fine books

Pollard, Alfred W (1859-1944)

1912

Series title also on t.p.

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Fine books

Pollard, Alfred W (1859-1944)

1912

Series title also on t.p.

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Fine books

Pollard, Alfred W (1859-1944)

1912

Series title also on t.p.

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Greek printing types 1465-1927 : facsimiles from an exhibition of books illustrating the development of Greek printing shown in the British Museum 1927

Scholderer, Victor (1880-1971); British Museum; Monotype Corporation

1927

Preface signed: Frederic G. Kenyon. Prepared by and at the expense of the Lanston Monotype Corporation, and presented to the British Museum for circulation.

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The ladies amusement, or, Whole art of japanning made easy : illustrated in upwards of fifteen-hundred different designs on two hundred copper plates (oversize)

Pillement, Jean (1728-1808); Sayer, Robert (1725-1794); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1966

Facsimile reprint. Originally published: 2nd ed. London : Robert Sayer, [1762?]. "Reprinted from the only surviving perfect copy of 'The Ladies amusement'"--Page [1], 1st sequence. Reprinted from a ...

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