Master Bibliography of Online Resources
This master list includes research resources, exhibitions, and collections information relating to the study and appreciation of Publishers' Bindings. Please contact us at bindings@bama.ua.edu if you know of a site appropriate for inclusion.
Bibliography of Print Resources | Bibliography of Binding Designer Resources
Amy Sacker: Boston Book Designer
A project
by Mark Schumacher at University of North Carolina-Greensboro
www.amysacker.net
American Case Construction Binding
Copyright Gary Frost
http://futureofthebook.com/discuss/msgReader$184?mode=day
The Art of Publishers’ Bookbindings:
1815–1915
Grolier Club
http://www.grolierclub.org/ExBindings.htm Beauty for Commerce: Publishers' Bindings
1830-1910
University of Rochester Special Collections
http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?page=3352
Bibliographical Society of
America
http://www.bibsocamer.org/
Bibliography of the University
of Wisconsin-Madison's Scandinavian-American Publisher
Holdings, 1840-1920
Included in PBO project
http://bindings.lib.ua.edu/scan_bib_uwm.doc
Blissful Books and Bindings
Bowdoin College
http://library.bowdoin.edu/arch/exhibitions/Bliss/Pubs.shtml
Bookbindings in Paper and Cloth, 1800-1925
Queen's University Special Collections, Ontario
http://library.queensu.ca/webmus/exhibits/2004mar_bookbindings.htm
Bookhad
Discussion email list: bookhad@jiscmail.ac.uk
http://194.80.28.9:9080/links.html
Bookbinding and the Conservation of books:
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington
Drawings by Margaret R. Brown
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/don.html
Bound to Please:
American Cloth Bookbindings, 1830-1910
A Rare Book School Exhibition curated by Vincent Golden Exhibition
at The Rotunda,
University of Virginia, 13 November 2006 through 1 May 2007.
Exhibition
brochure at: http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/exhibitions/boundtoplease/brochure/
Burpee Seed Catalog Cover Gallery
Burpee
Seed Co.
http://www.burpee.com/jump.jsp?itemID=598&itemType=CONTENT_ARTICLE&apage=1
British Library Database of Bookbindings
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/
The Charles M Adams American Trade Binding Collection
University of North Carolina-Greensboro
http://library.uncg.edu/depts/speccoll/binding/ambd1.html
Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century
University of Delaware Library
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/color/
CoOL, Bookbinding and the Conservation
of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/don.html
Cover Story: 19th Century Cloth Book Covers
University of Florida
http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/baldwin/covers/coverstory.htm
Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print
in the Americas
Penn Library / exhibitions
http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/rbm/kislak/index/cultural.html
Decorative American Bookbinding:
Exlibris: An Electronic News and Discussion Group for Those
Interested in Rare Books, Manuscripts, Special Collections,
and Librarianship
in Special Collections
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/byform/mailing-lists/exlibris/1998/08/msg00073.html
Decorative Publishers' Bindings: Ohio
Imprints and Authors
Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library
http://www.ohiocenterforthebook.org/LiteraryTreasures.aspx?id=1&mode=detail Digital Bridges
LeHigh University
http://bridges.lib.lehigh.edu/terms.html Elegant Book Bindings in the Mortimer Rare Book Room
Smith College
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/mrbr/
Elihu Vedder's Drawings for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Smithsonian American Art Museum
http://americanart.si.edu/collections/exhibits/vedder/
Eureka! There's Gold in Them Thar Books,
Exhibit description
University of Virginia
http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/exhibitions/eureka.pdf
Genre and Physical Characteristics Terms
Used in the Online Catalog
American Antiquarian Society
http://catalog.mwa.org/help/genrea.htm
German Decorative Trade Bindings
University of Wisconsin-Madison
http://www.library.wisc.edu/libraries/dpf/bookarts/germanDec.html
German Publishers' Bookbindings 1811 -1925
Howard W. Gunlocke Rare Book and Special Collections Room, Georgetown University
http://www.library.georgetown.edu/dept/speccoll/gpb_02/intro.htm Gleaming Gold and Shining Silver
Article on an exhibition curated by Sue Allen, Yale Bulletin,
Vol. 31, No. 2, September 2002, Yale University
http://www.yale.edu/opa/v31.n3/story10.html
Gold-Stamped Publishers’ Bindings
Exhibition
Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/gilded/ Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek: National Library of the
Netherlands
http://konbib.nl/webexpo/honderd-en.html
inlinnengebonden.nl: Dutch Art Nouveau and Art Deco Bookbindings from 1890-1930.
www.inlinnengebonden.nl
It’s the Ticket: Nineteenth-Century Bookbinding in the British Isles and the United States
Bryn Mawr College
http://www.brynmawr.edu/Library/exhibits/ticket/tickets.html
Jack London Collection
Utah State University, Special Collections
http://library.usu.edu/Specol/digitalexhibits/jacklondon/index.htm
Jackie Gleason Parapsychology Collection
University of Miami
http://www.library.miami.edu/archives/jg/index.html
James Burn and Co. Ticketed Bindings from Robert
J. Milevski, Preservation Librarian
Princeton University Library
http://www.princeton.edu/~milevski/Burn/Burn_Ticket_Index_2.html
Judging a Book by Its Cover: Gold-Stamped
Publishers' Bindings of the 19th Century
Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/gilded/
The Lucile Project
An ambitious project by Sid Huttner at the University of Iowa, to attempt to
recover the publishing history of a single 19th century book
http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile/ Margaret Armstrong: American Book Designer
A site by Linda M. Wilson
http://home.tiac.net/~lmwilson/home.htm
Minsky Online: Publishers' Bindings Gallery
Richard Minsky
http://www.minsky.com/gallery.htm
Norwegian-American Imprint Collection
St. Olaf University
http://www.stolaf.edu/library/libinfo/noramimp/DVisualGuide.html
Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious
- Bookbindings from Special Collections in the Princeton
University Library
Online version of the exhibition
curated by Scott Husby in the Main Gallery during November
2002
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/hb.html
Printed Flower Gardens: The Bookbindings of Margaret Armstrong
Exhibit description, University of Virginia http://www.virginia.edu/oldbooks/exhibitions/armstrong.shtml
Publishers' Cloth: A Gallery of Bindings, ca. 1840-1910
Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts Company
http://www.prbm.com/interest/i.htm?bndgal3.shtml~main
Publishers' Trade List Annual: Index of Contributors and Advertisers 1873-1947
A project by Sid Huttner at the University of Iowa
http://sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu/lucile/ptla/index.htm
Talwin Morris Book Design
University of Glasgow, Humanities Advanced Technology & Information
Institute
http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/MultimediaStudentProjects/00-01/97
To Judge a Book by its Cover: 19th Century American Pictorial Book Covers
Oberlin College Special Collections
http://www.oberlin.edu/library/special/vrx-bookcovers.html
Trade Catalogs at the University of Delaware
Library: Printing, Publishing, and the Book Trades University
of Delaware
http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/tradecat/1print.htm
Uncle Tom's Cabin Covers
The University of Virginia
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/utc/uncletom/illustra/covershp.html
Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders, and Book Designers
Princeton University
http://libweb2.princeton.edu/rbsc2/ga/unseenhands/index.html
Victorian Bookbinding: Innovation and Extravagance, 1820-1910
University of North Texas
http://www.library.unt.edu/rarebooks/exhibits/binding/default.htm
Vocabulary Program
Getty Institute
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/
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