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Compiled by Pasco and Jean Gasbarro We value your feedback and cheerfully welcome any suggestions you may have. We also want to keep this list as accurate and up-to-date as possible, so please contact us at pasco_gasbarro@yahoo.com with any corrections. Web sites are arranged below by location. The listing is also available by category. |
| Australia - Australia & New Zealand | back to top |
| Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand | We are an enthusiastic organisation with members from many different professions united by a common scholarly interest in physical and textual bibliography and the history of the written word. The Society produces a flourishing quarterly scholarly journal, the Bulletin, and has an active publishing programme. |
| Australia - Australia | back to top |
| History of the Book in Australia | |
| Books and Empire, University of Sydney, January 30 to February 1, 2003, CFP | |
| Melbourne Museum of Printing | Australia's working and teaching museum of typography and printing located at Footscray, Victoria. Specialising in retention of letterpress, both the equipment and the knowledge. |
| Centre for the Book - Australia | In 1997 LISWA established Australia's first Centre for the Book situated on the ground floor of the Alexander Library Building. |
| Australia - New Zealand | back to top |
| Print Culture in New Zealand: The Otago Project | |
| Europe | back to top |
| Hand Press Book (HPB) Database | The HPB Database is a steadily growing collection of separate files of catalogue records from many libraries and collections covering items of European printing of the hand-press period (c. 1455-1830) integrated into one file. |
| Consortium of European Research Libraries | |
| Europe - Estonia | back to top |
| History of the Book in Estonia | |
| Europe - France | back to top |
| Histoire du livre | A database of library sale catalogs in the modern era, currently held in Parisian libraries. |
| Image of France | |
| Chronology of French publishing in the 20th century | |
| Institut d'histoire du livre, Lyons | |
| Europe - Germany | back to top |
| German Book Illustration of the 15th Century | |
| Book History Program, Erlangen University | The Department of Buchwissenschaft was initiated in 1984 at the Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen and is one of four departments at German universities that centre round the book. |
| Gutenberg Institute for the History of the Book | |
| Association for the Recording and Reconstruction of Historical Bookbindings | Aims include the recording and documentation of existing collections of bookbindings, the listing of libraries with holdings of historical bookbindings, recording of the estates of researchers on bookbindings. |
| Europe - Ireland | back to top |
| History of the Irish Book Project | Summaries of the 5 volume history. |
| Traditions of the Book, 1300-1600 | |
| National Print Museum of Ireland | |
| Europe - Italy | back to top |
| Linotype & Linotipisti | Linotype & Linotipisti is a window open to all who have known the old printing shops, to air their testimony and recollections in order to keep alive the memory of that mythical machine and of that old romantic profession. |
| Il libro antico | |
| Discipline del libro | |
| Europe - Netherlands | back to top |
| Book History Timetable | |
| A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek | Features Mediaeval manuscripts and illumination, Block books and incunabula, Alba amicorum, Engravings, Woodcuts, Lithographs, and Drawings. |
| BIBLIOPOLIS, researching Dutch book history | The Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, has initiated a project to create a tool for the research on the history of the book. This tool, which will be called Bibliopolis, will be designed as an interactive academic information system. |
| Book Sales Catalogues of the Dutch Republic, 1599-1800 | |
| Leiden Centre for the Book | |
| Book History Online: An International Bibliography | International Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries: A Database. |
| Europe - Portugal | back to top |
| MuseuVirtual da Imprensa (Porto, Portugal) | |
| Europe - United Kingdom | back to top |
| Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies, Institute of English Studies, U of London | |
| Centre for Writing, Publishing, and Reading History, University of Reading | |
| History of the Book in Scotland | |
| Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History | This website makes available information on the London and provincial book trades which has been gathered intermittently since the 1970s. |
| British Library Newspaper Archives at Colindale, a brief guide | The British Newspaper Library is located in Colindale, London NW9. Part of the British Library, it is the home of the national archive collection of newspapers. |
| Cambridge University Press | |
| British Association of Paper Historians | This is a national association which aims to bring together individuals, companies and institutions with a common interest in the following areas: paper in all its forms and diversity, papermaking by hand and machine, conservation, mill histories. |
| Internet Library of Early Journals Project | ILEJ, the "Internet Library of Early Journals" was a joint project by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford, conducted under the auspices of the eLib (Electronic Libraries) Programme. |
| Bibliographical Society (United Kingdom) | Founded in 1892, the Bibliographical Society is the senior learned society dealing with the study of the book and its history. The objectives of the Society are : to promote and encourage study and research in the fields of : historical, analytical, descriptive and textual bibliography, the history of printing, publishing, bookselling, bookbinding and collecting. |
| Women Printers in Great Britain, 1475-1700 | |
| Urban Manuscripts Project (Center for Medieval Studies at University of York) | |
| Research Centre for Illuminated Manuscripts | |
| Textbook Colloquium | |
| Illuminated Manuscripts at the Bodleian | About a thousand images can be reached from this page, arranged by century and country of origin. |
| Wove Paper: A Turning Point in the History of Papermaking | |
| PUNCH: A History Project | |
| Penny Magazine, The | |
| Victorian Periodicals and the Empire | These volumes from the Yale Library's collections are chosen to suggest the chronological range, geographical scope, and topical variety of the periodical press's treatment of the British Empire during the reign of Queen Victoria. |
| Routledge Press | |
| Art of the Book: Rare Printed Books from the University of Liverpool Library | This exhibition draws upon the University's rich and varied printed book collection to explore the significance of the advent of printing and its impact on the development of western civilization. |
| Historical Manuscripts Commission: Sources for British Newspaper History, NRA guide | Briefly describes the unpublished sources noted in the National Register of Archives (NRA), the principal relevant repositories with strong collections relating to the history of the press, other useful links and general works of reference. |
| Printing Historical Society (United Kingdom) | Founded in London in 1964, the Society fosters interest in the history of printing and encourages both the study and the preservation of printing machinery, records, and equipment of historical value. |
| Oxford University's Early Printed Books Project | |
| British Library | The British Library is one of the world's great knowledge institutions. It holds over 150 million items from every age of global civilisation, from historical documents to the latest information for business and research. |
| Oxford University Press | |
| London Book Trades Project: Researching 18th-c. London Book Production | |
| Bodleian Library | The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford. It is also a copyright deposit library and its collections are used by scholars from around the world. |
| Historical Manuscripts Commission Accessions to Repositories | Collects information from over two hundred record repositories throughout the British Isles about manuscript accessions received in the previous twelve months. This information is added to the indexes to the National Register of Archives. |
| Reading University Library Collections | The Library has a large number of Special Collections of rare books, manuscripts, archives and other materials. |
| John Rylands University Library | There are now over 4,000 Incunabula in the Library, most of which date from between 1455 and 1480, representing more than 500 European presses, some being the only known copies |
| Bodleian Library: A Brief History | A brief history of the Bodleian Library on the library's website. |
| St Bride Printing Library, London | |
| Cambridge Project for the Book Trust | |
| BOOKHAD, research library support for book history and design (UK) | |
| Stationers Hall, London | |
| Stationers Hall Copyright Records (PRO guide) | |
| Convergence: A Journal of Research into New Media | Convergence is a refereed academic paper journal which addresses the creative, social, political and pedagogical issues raised by the advent of new media technologies. |
| History of the Book @ Oxford (HoBo) | HoBo currently aims to provide comprehensive coverage of all UK seminars, lectures and conferences related to the history of the book; it also includes some European and (in the case of the annual SHARP conferences) American events. |
| Book Trade History Group (UK) | |
| Early Printed Books Project, University of Oxford | The project began in June 1995 with funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. |
| Printing Historical Collections, London College of Printing | |
| MA in the History of the Book Institute of English Studies, University of London | |
| Reading Experience Database, charting the history of reading in Britain, 1450-1914 | |
| Library History Database: British Isles to 1850 (Robin Alston) | |
| Oxford Bibliographical Society | |
| Book Collector, The | The pre-eminent journal in its field deals with all aspects of books, ancient and modern, with libraries, the book trade and book collecting. |
| Center for Editorial and Intertextual Research | |
| Cardiff Corvey | |
| Early Manuscripts at Oxford University | This site provides access to over 80 early manuscripts now in institutions associated with the University of Oxford. |
| Europe - United Kingdom - England | back to top |
| Manchester Bibliographical Society | The Society is a group of book collectors and booksellers who meet monthly during the Winter in several different venues in Manchester. |
| Early Book Society | Founded as an independent entity in 1987, the society was formed to bring together all those who are interested in any aspect of the study of manuscripts and early printed books. |
| Cambridge Bibliographic Society | |
| Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland | back to top |
| Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh | THE CHB was established in 1995 as an international and interdisciplinary centre for advanced research into all aspects of the material culture of the text - its production, circulation, and reception from manuscript to the electronic text. |
| Edinburgh Book History Seminar, 2001-2002 schedule | |
| Scottish Book Trade Index, National Library of Scotland | |
| Scottish Archive of Print and Publishing History Records | The aim of the SAPPHIRE Project is to record the social, economic and cultural history of the Scottish printing and publishing industry in the twentieth century. |
| Scottish Centre for the Book, Napier University | |
| Edinburgh Bibliographical Society | The Edinburgh Bibliographical Society claims to be the oldest continuing society of its kind. The founding meeting was held on 16 January 1890 when Archibald Constable was elected the first President. |
| North America - Canada | back to top |
| Impressions: 250 Years of Printing in the Lives of Canadians (National Library of Canada) | |
| Toronto Centre for the Book | |
| Bibliographical Society of Canada | The principal aims of The Bibliographical Society of Canada/La Soci‚t‚ bibliographique du Canada are to promote bibliographical publications; to encourage the preservation and to extend the knowledge of printed works and manuscripts, particularly those relating to Canada; to facilitate the exchange of information concerning rare Canadiana; to coordinate bibliographical activity and to set standards. |
| BIBSOCAN | BIBSOCAN is an open, unmoderated discussion group dealing with the subject of bibliography. While groups such as SHARP-L, EXLIBRIS and BIBSOFT discuss ancillary aspects, they do not address themselves specifically to questions of a bibliographical nature. |
| Canadian Publishers' Records Database | Contains information about location of publishers' records (offices, archives, institutions), scope and content of records, and biographical sketches and administrative histories of the publishing houses, authors and individuals who created them. |
| Libraries Today (Canadian library history) | |
| Bibliotheca Canadiana | This web site includes the images and selected text currently on view in the library exhibit. A publication based on Bibliotheca Canadiana will appear in the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections occassional series Marginalia in the late Spring of 1997. |
| North America - United States | back to top |
| Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America | Since 1949, The ABAA has been promoting ethical standards and professionalism in the antiquarian book trade in America and internationally. |
| Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World | |
| Is it a Book? | |
| American Book Prices Current | American Book Prices Current is an annual record of books, manuscripts, autographs, maps and broadsides sold at auction. Countries covered include North America and the UK, with sales from such other countries. |
| Printing: Renaissance and Reformation | |
| Bibliographical Society of America | The Bibliographical Society of America (BSA) is the only scholarly society in the United States whose primary focus is the study of books and manuscripts as physical objects. It was organized in 1904 and incorporated in 1927 with the principal objectives of promoting bibliographical research and issuing bibliographical publications. |
| Keepsake for 1829, The | This site reproduces several works from The Keepsake for 1829: Letitia Elizabeth Landon's "Verses," the engraving of Edwin Landseer's painting Georgiana, to which Landon's poems refers, William Wordsworth's "The Country Girl". |
| He who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe | |
| Amazon | |
| Illustrated Book, 1780-1830, The | The Library is grateful to be able to exhibit some of the highlights from the collection of Harris N. Hollin, books with hand-colored plates, covering a wide range of subjects, from the comic, to travel, views, birds, flowers and architecture. |
| American Periodicals | American Periodicals is an annual publication devoted exclusively to scholarship and criticism relating to American magazines and newspapers of all periods, including reviews of books in the subject area. |
| Bibliography for Western Book History | This course, which is offered each Spring semester, explores the history of the book in the West from the invention of the alphabet to the advent of the electronic book. Topics considered include authorship, publication, manufacture, distribution, reception, and the survival of books. |
| Wonderful World of Pop-Up and Movable Books, 1811-1996, The | 19th and 20th Century doll, movable and pop-up books. |
| Book History | BOOK HISTORY is a new scholarly journal devoted to every aspect of the history of the book, broadly defined as the creation, dissemination, reception, and use of script, print, and mediacy. |
| Tiny Tomes: The Charlotte M. Smith Collection of Miniature Books | |
| Topics inthe History of Books and Printing, 1400-1800 | |
| Culture of the Book, The | |
| History of the Book | |
| History of the Book | |
| Popular Fictions: Bestsellers from the Greeks to Grisham | |
| Book in Western Culture, The | |
| Cultures of the Book | |
| History of the Book and Its Forms, The | |
| Technologies of the Word | |
| History of the Book | |
| History of Reading | |
| Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America | |
| History of Libraries and Print Culture | |
| History o fBooks and Printing, 1800-1950 | |
| Bibliophile Mailing List | The Bibliophile Mailing List is maintained for the benefit of sellers and/or collectors of rare, out-of-print, scarce books in all subject areas. Our subscribers include librarians, students, scholars, and book lovers of all kinds. Participants will find books offered from a few dollars to many thousands of dollars. |
| Journalist as Novelist: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America | |
| Association for Documentary Editing | The Association's quarterly publication contains original and provocative scholarly articles, review essays which analyze editorial issues, timely information for the profession, and notices of available positions. Handsomely illustrated, the journal is of interest to documentary editors both literary and historical. |
| History of the Book | |
| Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia | The Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia was founded in 1947 at the University in Charlottesville in order to promote interest in books and manuscripts, maps, printing, the graphic arts, and bibliography and textual criticism. |
| Profession of Authorship in 19th-Century America, The | |
| SHARP: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing | |
| Print, Literacy & Powerin America to 1900 | |
| Center for the Book in the Library of Congress | The Center for the Book was established in 1977 to use the resources and prestige of the Library of Congress to promote books, reading, libraries, and literacy. |
| Directory of Cartoon Research Libraries | |
| Chapbook Collection at Lilly Library, Indiana University | |
| Broadsides Collection at the John Hay Library | |
| John Wiley & Sons | The company was founded in 1807, during the Jefferson presidency. In the early years, Wiley was best known for the works of Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, and other 19th century American literary giants. |
| 19th-Century Schoolbooks: A Demonstration Project (Digital Research Library) | FILE NOT FOUND |
| Digital Scriptorium | |
| Research Society for American Periodicals | The RSAP is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars interested in American magazines and newspapers. It publishes the journal American Periodicals and the RSAP Newsletter. |
| American Journalism Historians Association | The American Journalism Historians Association was founded in 1981 by journalism history professors seeking to share their research and ideas. |
| J-HISTORY (Journalism History) | Jhistory, founded in August, 1994, is a forum for discussions, with professors, graduate students and professionals debating and exploring journalism history topics. Some of the top historians of journalism and mass communication participate. |
| Book Industry Study Group | Gathers statistical information about the book market, suppliers and distributors, current sales to calculate and analyze industry trends. Creates and sets EDI standards for organizing and coding books. Manages On-Line Information Exchange (ONIX). |
| Guild of Book Workers | A national non-profit organization for all the book arts. Founded in 1906, the Guild currently has over 1000 members worldwide. Areas of interest include bookbinding, printing, conservation, marbling, calligraphy, and papermaking. |
| William Morris Society | Founded in London in 1955, the Society aims to make the life and work of Morris and his associates better known. Its programs include lectures, conferences, tours, museum visits, and social gatherings. |
| American Printing History Association | The American Printing History Association was founded in 1974 to encourage the study of printing history and its related arts and skills, including calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and publishing. |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: Rare Book Collection at Wilson Library | The Rare Book Collection (RBC) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill began in 1929 with the gift of 400 incunabula by the Hanes Family. Collection includes ancient clay tablets, medieval manuscripts, 16th-century printers imprints. |
| Program in the History of the Book in American Culture, American Antiquarian Society | The American Antiquarian Society's Program in the History of the Book in American Culture, established in 1983, is rooted in the research collections of AAS and its commitment to the history and bibliography of the printing, publication, and books. |
| Recent Studies of 18th-c. Book History: A Checklist | |
| Recent and Current ASECS/SHARP Projects in 18th-c. print culture | |
| History of Reading Special Interest Group (HRSIG) | |
| Archives of the American Library Association | The American Library Assocation Archives documents the history of the American Library Assocation and Librarianship. The Archives is open for public use and is managed by the University of Illinois Archives. A database describing the Archives' holdings may be accessed through the Search pages. |
| Library History Roundtable Bibliographies | |
| Women Printers and Booksellers: A Checklist of Sources | |
| American Newspaper Repository, The | We have about five thousand newspaper volumes, most of which came, directly or indirectly, from the British Library. Notable long runs include the New York World, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Times, and the Chicago Tribune. |
| Legacy of Aldus Manutius and His Press, The | In 1995 the Friends of the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University published In aedibus Aldi: the legacy of Aldus Manutius and his press. This catalog accompanied the exhibition. |
| American Association of University Presses | An organization of non-profit scholarly publishers, the Association of American University Presses is dedicated to the support of creative and effective scholarly communications. |
| Enduring Legacy of Paper Bindings, The | |
| Color Printing in the 19th Century | Among the books on exhibit are the two masterworks of the nature painter John James Audubon, The Birds of America and The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, the charming children's books of Kate Greenaway and Walter Crane. |
| University of Virginia Book Arts Press | RBS carries on exhibition and publication programs under the Book Arts Press imprint, and it sponsors public lectures -- notably the annual Sol. M. Malkin Lecture in Bibliography. |
| Books Go to War: Armed Services Editions in WWII | This is the virtual catalog of an exhibition held between 20 April and 10 September, 1996 in the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia. |
| Cultural Readings: Colonization & Print in the Americas | Most of the books, manuscripts, illustrations, and maps shown here were printed in Europe: produced by Europeans for Europeans. |
| Graphic Design: Typography | |
| NYPL Research Guide for Book History (bibliography) | |
| American Museum of Papermaking | The Museum features a remarkable collection of over 10,000 watermarks, papers, tools, machines, and manuscripts. |
| Cary Graphic Arts Collection at the Rochester Institute of Technology | |
| Printing History | |
| Random House | |
| Infancy of Printing at the Golda Meier Library | |
| A Medieval Blockbook | There are both manuscript and printed versions of these illustrated texts. The version presented here is meant specifically to give a modern reader an immediate experience of these books. |
| Duke Papyrus Archive | The Duke Papyrus Archive provides electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt. The target audience: papyrologists, historians, archaeologists, biblical scholars, classicists, Coptologists, Egyptologists. |
| World of the Renaissance Print Shop, The | |
| Library of Congress | The mission of the Library of Congress is to make its resources available and useful to the Congress and the American people. |
| Print Culture History in Modern America | |
| North America - United States - Alaska | back to top |
| Alaska Center for the Book | We're a non-profit organization celebrating the richness and diversity of language. We were founded in 1991 to ''stimulate public interest in literacy, through the spoken and written word, as central to our understanding of ourselves and the world around us.We're a non-profit organization celebrating the richness and diversity of language. We were founded in 1991 to ''stimulate public interest in literacy, through the spoken and written word, as central to our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. |
| North America - United States - Arizona | back to top |
| Arizona Center for the Book | Established in 1988, the Arizona Center for the Book works to stimulate the love of books, the thrill of reading, and respect for libraries as we strive to achieve the goal of literacy for every Arizonan. |
| North America - United States - California | back to top |
| Stanford University Press | Over the last 75 years, Stanford University Press has established a reputation as one the nation's leading publishers of scholarly books. |
| Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research, University of California, Riverside | |
| Huntington Library and Art Gallery | A private, nonprofit institution, The Huntington was founded in 1919 by railroad and real estate developer Henry Edwards Huntington and opened to the public in 1928. |
| University of California Press | The University of California Press was established in 1893 to distribute research papers of the University of California faculty by exchanging them for papers from other universities. Today the Press is a major cultural institution. |
| North America - United States - Colorado | back to top |
| Colorado Center for the Book | |
| North America - United States - Connecticut | back to top |
| Yale University Press | From the distance of nine decades the Yale University Press, a separately endowed department of the University with its own Board of Governors, has realized the hope of its founders that it become a university extension. |
| Beinecke Library, Yale University | The Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library is Yale University's principal repository for literary papers and for early manuscripts and rare books in the fields of literature, theology, history, and the natural sciences. |
| North America - United States - Florida | back to top |
| Book as Technology and Trope, The | Taught by Terry Harpold at the University of Florida. We will review the 2000-year evolution of the form of the book most familiar to modern readers -- the codex (folded sheets stitched into volumes, clasped or held on one side) -- and the changes in reading and writing practices that accompanied its evolution. |
| North America - United States - Idaho | back to top |
| Idaho Center for the Book | |
| North America - United States - Illinois | back to top |
| University of Chicago Press | The University of Chicago Press is the largest and one of the oldest of the American university presses. The Press was founded in 1892 as a division of the then newly-established University of Chicago. |
| University of Illinois Rare Book and Special Collections Library | The Rare Book and Special Collections Library of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the main repository for rare books, manuscripts and special collections for the library system. |
| North America - United States - Indiana | back to top |
| American Bestsellers and Their Movies | Taught by Paul Gutjahr. This course will explore American literary culture through the lens of novels and other types of writing which sold extraordinary well when they first appeared in print. |
| Lilly Library at Indiana University | |
| North America - United States - Iowa | back to top |
| American Literary Magazines of the Nineteenth Century | Taught by Kathleen Diffley, University of Iowa. From the new republic's city journals to Jacksonian giftbooks, from antislavery forums to august quarterly reviews, from regional periodicals to fin-de- siecle dime monthlies, we will investigate the trafficked intersections of literary texts, historical moment, cultural innovation, and marketplace demand to which American magazines gave rise. |
| University of Iowa Center for the Book | |
| University of Iowa Center for the Book | The University of Iowa Center for the Book represents a community of faculty, staff, students, and local book specialists with diverse interests in all facets of book production, distribution, and use. |
| North America - United States - Maryland | back to top |
| Authority of the Word: Books, Culture and Society in Europe and the United States | Taught by Prof. Robert Gross at William & Mary. This course will examine the social history of ideas and of intellectuals in the West from the early modern era to the present from a new perspective: that of the the new history of the book. |
| Johns Hopkins University Press | |
| North America - United States - Massachusetts | back to top |
| Harvard University Press | |
| Harvard University Library | The Harvard library system is the oldest in the United States and the largest academic library in the world. Books, manuscripts, microforms, maps, slides, photographs, and other materials are housed in more than 90 individual collections. |
| North America - United States - Michigan | back to top |
| University of Michigan Press | The University of Michigan Press seeks to transmit knowledge throughout the academic community and beyond by the publication of well-chosen works of high merit. |
| North America - United States - Minnesota | back to top |
| British Periodicals at Minnesota: The Early 19th Century | The University of Minnesota Libraries hold a relatively strong collection of nineteenth-century periodicals. The following handlist reports many periodicals that began publication in Great Britain between 1801 and 1850. |
| Street Ballads | |
| Book History and Literacies at Minnesota | Faculty members, graduate students, and other associates at the University of Minnesota have advanced research in areas related to book history as well as to cultural and social conditions for literacy. This site documents some of their work. |
| Minnesota Center for the Book | |
| North America - United States - Missouri | back to top |
| North America - United States - New Jersey | back to top |
| Binding Time and Space | The accompanying discussion touches on some aspects of this history--the intellectual provenance of the text--but it does not provide comprehensive historical treatment. It does not even attempt comprehensive paleographical or bibliographical treatment. |
| Spectator Project: A Hypermedia Research Archive of 18th-c. Periodicals | The Spectator Project is an interactive hypermedia environment for the study of The Tatler (1709-1711), The Spectator (1711-14), and the eighteenth-century periodical in general. |
| Princeton University Library Rare Books and Special Collections | This site contains a comprehensive range of information concerning the collections, policies, and activities of the Department. |
| Princeton University Press | |
| North America - United States - New York | back to top |
| Grolier Club | |
| New York Public Library | The world's premier circulating public library and research library. |
| North America - United States - North Carolina | back to top |
| University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (Am. & Brit.) | |
| Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 | The Emergence of Advertising in America: 1850 - 1920 (EAA) presents over 9,000 images, with database information, relating to the early history of advertising in the United States. |
| Duke University Press | |
| North America - United States - North Dakota | back to top |
| North America - United States - Ohio | back to top |
| NOBS, the Northern Ohio Bibliographic Society | |
| Ohio Center for the Book | |
| North America - United States - Oklahoma | back to top |
| McFarlin Library at University of Tulsa | Abstracted from one of the collection lists of the McFarlin Library at the University of Tulsa, which contain significant information about publishers and publishing but which are not, strictly speaking, publisher's archives. |
| North America - United States - Oregon | back to top |
| Oregon Center for the Book | |
| North America - United States - Pennsylvania | back to top |
| ERIC: English Renaissance in Context | The English Renaissance in Context (ERIC) is a NEH-funded project designed to provide scholars and students at a variety of levels with access to major texts of the English Renaissance in their original versions. ERIC grows out of both contemporary critical tendencies in the field of English Renaissance studies and a commitment to providing broad access to original source materials that would otherwise be out of reach for many. |
| American Literary Circles: The Atlantic Monthly Circle | Taught by Dr. Sherry Linkon, Youngstown State University. In this course, we will study both the life of the magazine and the lives and works of some of its authors. |
| Penn State Center for the Book | The Penn State Series in the History of the Book publishes books that employ a mixture of approaches: historical, archival, biographical, critical, sociological, and economic. |
| Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text and Image | We were established in 1996 in Penn's Special Collections Library to provide the scholarly community with web access to virtual facsimiles of original texts, documents, and sources from Penn's collections. These include printed books, manuscripts, photographs, maps, broadsides, ephemera, and recorded sound. Individual project sites typically reflect collection strengths and/or highlights. |
| American Literary Genres: The Bestseller | Taught by Dr. Sherry Linkon, Youngstown State University. By the end of the quarter, you will understand the concept of literary genres, understand historical and recent ideas about popular fiction, By the end of the quarter, you will understand the concept of literary genres, understand historical and recent ideas about popular fiction, understand how popular fiction fits into the history of American literature and American culture. |
| Romantic Communities: Poetry, Publishing, and Romanticism | Taught by Michael Gamer at the University of Pennsylvania. This course will explore the materials and contexts of the first generation of Romantic Writing, focusing particularly on notions of literary production and how they relate to theories of community. |
| Authorship, Collaboration, and Literary Property | Taught by Michael Gamer at the University of Pennsylvania. This course will focus primarily on texts published between two foundational legal cases in Britain: Donaldson v. Beckett (1774), which limited the term of copyright and broke up the reprint monopoly of London booksellers; and the revised Copyright Act (1842), which still serves as the foundation of copyright law today. |
| Rosenbach Museum and Library | |
| North America - United States - Texas | back to top |
| Shakespeare and the Material Book | |
| Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin | The principal rare books and manuscripts library of The University of Texas at Austin, it contains 35 million manuscripts, 1 million books, 5 million photographs, over 100,000 works of art, and important collections on performing arts. |
| North America - United States - Virginia | back to top |
| University Press of Virginia | The University of Virginia Press was founded in 1963 to advance the intellectual interests not only of the University of Virginia, but of institutions of higher learning throughout the state |
| Rare Book School at the University of Virginia | |
| University of Virginia's Electronic Text Center | |
| North America - United States - Washington DC | back to top |
| Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies | The Washington Area Group for Print Culture Studies (WAGPCS) aims to provide a regular, monthly forum for those interested in book history and print culture studies and welcomes the participation of everyone interested in print culture. |
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| Center for the History of Print Culture in Modern America | Its objective is to help determine the historical sociology of print in modern America in all its culturally diverse manifestations. |
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