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• The Book

  a Global History

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  A concise edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Book, this book features the 51 articles from the Companion plus 3 brand new chapters in one affordable volume.

• Book Art Object 2

  Second Catalogue of the Codex Foundation Biennial International Book Exhibition and Symposium, Berkeley, 2011

  Codex Book Fair and Symposium (3rd : 2011 : Berkeley, Calif.),

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  The most ambitious and diverse survey of the book arts published to date, Book Art Object 2 serves as a record of the third biennial Codex Book Fair and Symposium, "The Fate of the Art," held in Berkeley, California in 2011.

• The Book of Books

  500 Years of Graphic Innovation

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  Since the fifteenth century, the printed book has been an essential carrier of information. And, for more than five hundred years, there have been designers, printers, and publishers who have extended the boundaries of their professions…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bound in Venice

  the Serene Republic and the Dawn of the Book

  Marzo Magno, Alessandro,

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  Venice in the 1500s is the mercantile and cultural capital of the world. There, the first printers, publishing houses and bookstores open for business, and thrive, finding fertile ground in the city's wealth, its freedom and high level of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Chronicle of the World 1493

  Schedel, Hartmann, 1440-1514

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  Timetunnel to the 15th century: 1493's must-have history book and city guide by Hartmann Schedel Hartmann Schedel's Weltchronik, or Chronicle of the World, was a groundbreaking encyclopedic work and at the time the most lavishly…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Fantasies & Hard Knocks

  My Life as a Printer

  Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel,

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  A lavishly illustrated memoir by one of the pre-eminent handpress printers of the late twentieth century.

• Giambattista Bodoni

  His Life and His World

  Lester, Valerie Browne, 1939-

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  This is the first English-language biography of the relentlessly ambitious and incomparably talented printer Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813).

• A History of Chromolithography

  Printed Colour for All

  Twyman, Michael

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  This title traces the evolution of chromolithography from its tentative beginnings in the early 19th century to its dominant industrial position in the 50 years before World War I. The story ends with its gradual decline commercially and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The History of the Book in 100 Books

  Cave, Roderick,

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  The author explores 100 books that have played a critical role in the creation and expansion of books and all that they bring -- literacy, numeracy, expansion of knowledge, religion, political theory, oppression, liberation.

• London Underground by Design

  Ovenden, Mark, 1963-

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  A beautifully illustrated and comprehensive history of one of the world's most celebrated design achievements, and of the visionaries who brought it to life.

• Lydia Bailey

  a Checklist of Her Imprints

  Nipps, Karen

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  Lydia Bailey was a leading printer in Philadelphia for decades. Her career began in 1808--when her husband, Robert, died, leaving her with the family business to manage--and ended in 1861, when she retired at the age of eighty-two. She…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• On Paper

  the Everything of Its Two-thousand-year History

  Basbanes, Nicholas A., 1943-

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  A consideration of all things paper--the invention that revolutionized human civilization.

• Palatino

  the Natural History of a Typeface

  Bringhurst, Robert,

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  History of the evolution of all members of the Palatino tribe: Foundry Palatino, Linotype Palatino, Michelangelo, Sistina, Aldus, Heraklit, Phidias, American Palatino, Enge Aldus, Linofilm Palatino, Zapf Renaissance, PostScript Palatino,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Printer's Eye

  Ukiyo-e From the Grabhorn Collection

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  Edwin Grabhorn (1889--1968), co-founder of the Grabhorn Press, Northern California's premier letterpress printer, was a pioneer American collector of Japanese prints. This books features over 100 rare Japanese woodblock prints and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Printing Colour 1400-1700

  History, Techniques, Functions and Receptions

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  An introduction to colour in printmaking 1400-1700.

• Shady Characters

  the Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols & Other Typographical Marks

  Houston, Keith, 1977-

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  A charming and indispensable tour of two thousand years of the written word which includes "*", "+", "@", and "&".

• Suave Mechanicals

  Essays on the History of Bookbinding

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  Nine authors writing on nine topics related to the history of bookbinding--it sets a high standard for interesting and groundbreaking scholarship in the history of the book.

• Waters Rising

  Letters From Florence : Peter Waters and Book Conservation at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale Di Firenze After the 1966 Flood

  Waters, Sheila, 1929-2022

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  Accompanying DVD contains the film "The restoration of books, Florence, 1968", a film based on the conservation and preservation work in the National Library of Florence after the floods on 4 November 1966."