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Turning the Pages [read review]
Interactive display system from The British Library allows users to look at the actual pages from rare manuscripts.
www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html
Gutenberg, Johannes (1400-1468) (5)
dir.yahoo.com/.../History_of_Books_and_Printing/Gutenberg__Johannes__1400_1468_
Rosenbach Museum & Library
Museum of art and antiques and library of rare books and transcripts housed in a historic 19th century mansion in Philadelphia, PA.
www.rosenbach.org
Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: the Printing Press and a Changing World
Traces the development of the printed book.
communication.ucsd.edu/bjones/Books/booktext.html
St. Bride Printing Library
Information about the library, its history and collections, and its supporting organizations, The North American and European Friends of the St. Bride Library.
www.Stbride.org
Aspects of the Victorian Book [read review]
Online exhibition from The British Library devoted to Victorian books and magazines.
www.bl.uk/collections/early/victorian/intro.html
Printing: Renaissance and Reformation
An exhibit that explores the history of printing from its origins to the seventeenth century.
www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/sccoll/renprint/renprint.html
History of Printing Timetable
From 3500 BCE Sumerian clay tablets to present day.
www.xs4all.nl/~knops/timetab.html
Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books
Digital collection of of 19th century decorative book bindings from the United States.
bindings.lib.ua.edu
Schøyen Collection, The [read review]
Large collection of ancient and rare manuscripts.
www.nb.no/baser/schoyen
Aldus Pius Manutius (3)
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Historical Currier & Ives Print Collection
Large private collection of original prints.
www.curriercollection.com
English Short-Title Catalogue
Provides bibliographic records, with holdings, of every surviving copy of letterpress produced in Great Britain or any of its dependencies, in any language, worldwide, from 1473-1800.
estc.ucr.edu
Oxford Early Printed Books Project
Aims to create a database of accurate bibliographical descriptions for all foreign books in non-Bodleian libraries, printed before 1641.
www.lib.ox.ac.uk/icc
History of Reading Codes for the Blind
About the many different types of embossed letters that have been used as reading codes.
www.nyise.org/blind
Archive of Watermarks and Papers in Greek Manuscripts
Searchable database of designs organized by type plus paper descriptions and bibliography.
abacus.bates.edu/Faculty/wmarchive
Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
Stanford's collection of major dime novel series and story newspapers includes images, texts, guided tour, and timeline for this late 19th century genre.
www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/dp/pennies
Koster, Laurens Janszoon (c.1370-1440?)
Also Coster. Dutch printer who might have worked with movable type before Johannes Gutenberg.
www.psymon.com/koster
Pop-up and Movable Books: A Tour Through Their History [read review]
From the 19th century to the present. Features examples from the Weaver Collection, University of North Texas.
www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/popup2/default.htm
Odyssey in Print
The Smithsonian presents journeys of the human mind through six centuries' worth of rare books, manuscripts, art, and artifacts.
www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/Odyssey

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