Biblio - a book trade discussion group.
Book Arts-L - a mailing list for bookbinders, printers and other book art related areas.
CoOL - Conservation on-line
ExLibris - a discussion group for rare book librarians, but with collector and dealer involvement, although no on-line selling of books is allowed.
Lis-Rarebooks - just limited to discussions on rare books librarianship.
LetPress - for discussion of printing and letterpress.
SHARP-L - Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing.
Typo-L - aimed at those interested in type and typography.
UKBooks - a book trade discussion group for UK residents only.
Art
Art Price Index
Getty Art Resource
Yale Center for British Art - search form
Architecture
R.I.B.A. Royal Institute of British Architects
Authors
Literary Criticism:
LitLinks
Todd Wehr Library list of resources.
The Criticism Collection
Pathfinder - Literary Criticism
Specific Authors:
Beckford, William
Blake, William
Morris, William.
Oxenham, Elsie J.
Author's Signatures
A large and comprehensive list of authors' signatures
More authors' signatures
The Bible
Bible Search on-line
Bibliography and history of the book
Dan Traister Resources for the history of the book and printing
Jack Lynch
Rarebooks.fr
offer for the first time on Internet the most important reference books in facsimile.
Already available : Barbier, Baron Double, Berny, Brunet, Cohen, Debacker, Fairfax Murray, Goedeke, Goff , Grand-Carteret, Lacombe, Lepetit, Lowndes, Pichon, Picot (Rothschild), Pritzel, Rahir, Renouard, Rosenthal, Ruble, Sabin Americana, Souhart, Tchémerzine and Vicaire.
Also much information for book amateurs and professionals.
Bibliographical Societies
The Bibliographical Society
Bibliographical Society of America
Bibliographical Society of Canada
Binding
American Academy of Bookbinding
Tini Miura, PO Box 1590, Telluride CO 81435. USA. Tel: 001 303 728-3886
Association for the Recording and Reconstruction of Historical Bookbindings
Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild.
Designer Bookbinders
The Fine Art of British Bookbinding: An exhibition of the Lilly Library, Indiana University, featuring the work of William Matthews, Gemma O'Connor, John Plummer, Angela James, Arthur Johnson, Edgar Mansfield, and Roger Powell.
Bookselling and Collecting
The Clique
Robert F. Lucas The essentials of book collecting (essay)
Trussel's Books and Book Collecting
Bookplates
American Society of Bookplate Collectors & Designers.
Cataloguing
Library Corporation Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books
Cataloguer's toolbox
Chess
Bibliotheca Van der Linde-Niemeijeriana Chess & Draughts collection
Children's Books
Cotsen Children's Library - Princeton University
The Great Menagerie: The Wonderful World of Pop-Up and Movable Books, 1811-1996: An exhibition at the University of North Texas Library.
Colour
The Faber Birren Collection of Books on Colour
Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century - University of Delaware Library, Newark
Conservation
Association of American Archivists
Book Repair - Procedures and Treatments Used for Book Repair and Pamphlet Binding.
Conservation OnLine, Stanford University
Knops Boekrestauratie - Conservation & restoration of books & paper
Preservation of Library & Archival Materials: A Manual - ed.Sherelyn Ogden.
Regional Alliance for Preservation (RAP) - a new centralized
source for information and education on collections conservation and
preservation
Eighteenth Century
American Society for 18th Century Studies
Lewis Walpole Library
Recent Studies in 18th Century Book History
Selected Readings, the online running bibliography of recent articles and books on
all subjects pertaining the the long eighteenth century across the disciplines.
William Beckford
Ephemera
Ephemera Society of America
French bibliographical terms
Petit glossaire du bibliophile et de l'amateur de livres.
French bibliographical abbreviations
Latin place names
English to Latin word search tool
Graesse
RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
Librarians professional associations
American Library Association Rare Books and Manuscripts Group
Rare Books & Manuscripts Librarianship - index
The Library Association (UK) Rare Books Group
Liblink - MCB University Press is offering the unique opportunity to register your
research on their Library and Information Services Internet Research
Register. The register will build up into an invaluable resource, enabling
the history of research in a particular field to be tracked
Libraries catalogues and databases
British Library
British Library - Map Collection
British Library Newspaper Collection
Bibliotheque Nationale de France - (English version)
Cambridge University Library
COPAC - UK libraries union catalogue
Folger Shakespeare Library database (HAMNET)
Gabriel, information service for the National Libraries of Europe
Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog , a union catalogue of German and other libraries
Library of Congress
Library and Archival Exhibitions on the Web: - links to numerous book arts, library and archival exhibitions online.
Music Libraries On-Line
National Library catalogues worldwide
National Library of Ireland
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Wales
OCLC
Repositories of Primary Sources (over 3,600 links)
RLIN
Science Museum (London)
UK Higher Education and Research Libraries
UK Public Libraries
Web catalogues
Library history
British Library Journal
HoBo (re-named site for The History of the Book)
IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions)
IFLA Round Table on Library History
Librariana archives of Boise State University
Libraries and culture
The Library Association
Library History Database
Library History Group
Manuscripts
Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
Historical Manuscripts Commission (UK)
Images from Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts - Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Manuscript Society.
contact: David R. Smith, Executive Director, 350 N. Nigara Street, Burbank CA 91505. USA.
Stephen R. Reimer, University of Alberta
Manuscripts and Incunabula Collection - Stadt- und Universitaetsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Maps
British Library Map Collection
Map & Cartography History - the Gateway
Medical books
ALHHS - Archivists and Librarians in the History of the Health Sciences
Miniature Books
Tiny Tomes: The Charlotte M. Smith Collection of Miniature Books: an exhibition of minature books from the University of Iowa Library
Music
Music Libraries On-Line
Natural History
Animal, Vegetable and Mineral: Natural History Books by Ten Authors - Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University.
Fishing - Milne Angling Collection
Flora Danica Online - Danish National Library of Science and Medicine
Herbals & Early Gardening Books - the Doris and Marc Patten Collection
Hunt Institute
Papermaking & Watermarks
British Association of Paper Historians
contact: Frances Wakeman, 2 Manor Way, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 2BD, U.K.
The Robert C. Williams American Museum of Papermaking
Friends of Dard Hunter - papermaking and paper history.
Handmade Paper / Büttenpapier
Institute of Paper Conservation Links Page
International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists
contact: Pat Gentenaar, Churchilllaan 1009, 2286 AD Rijswijk, The Netherlands. Phone 1742-96961
Archive of Watermark Images -
Watermarks
Digital Catalogue of Watermarks and Type Ornaments Used by William Stansby in the Printing of The Workes of Benjamin Jonson - David L. Gants, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia
The Watermark Archive goes onto the WWW
Repertorium of Papers in Greek Manuscripts in Spanish Libraries
Recent Notices of the Watermark Archive
The First International Conference on the History, Function, and Study of Watermarks Roanoke, Virginia, 10-13 October, 1996. The information on this Web site remains of current interest.
Halbeisen watermarks
Place Names
The Getty Geographic Place Name Project
Place Names Gazetteer
Provenance research
Library History Database
Printing
American Printing History Association
British Printing Society
contact: Mike Willshire-Jacobs, Cobo, Beetons Avenue, Ash, Aldershot, Hampshire GU12 5DH, U.K.
Canadian Books - a history
Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century: An exhibition of the Department of Special Collections, The University of Delaware
Gutenberg Bible
Handpress - Richard-Gabriel Rummonds
Italian 16th Century Editions - a census
International Bank of Printers' Ornaments
Microsoft Typography Homepage
Manutius, Aldux - and his Press - Brigham Young University
Plantin-Moretus Museum
La Preuve par les fleurons? Analyse comparée du matériel ornemental des imprimeurs suisses romands 1775-1785
Printing Historical Society
Renaissance Liturgical Imprints
Rochester Institute of Technology - Library on printing history.
Scottish Book Trade Index - Index of publishers & printers, binders, papermakers, Booksellers &c, upto the mid 19th century.
Serif - a magazine of Type & Typography
Stansby, William. Printers ornaments used by William Stansby, 1615-1617
Type Directors' Club
contact: Mara Kurtz, Mara Kurtz Studio, 322 Central Park West, New York NY 10025. USA. Phone (212) 666-1453
The Typophiles .
contact: Barbara Henry, South Street Seaport Museum, 207 Front Street, New York NY 10038. USA.
Weygand, James Lamar.
A collection of pressmarks gathered from America's private presses and from others not so private.
Woodblocks - printers' woodblocks
Resources - general and sites with links
Albert Masters Rare books on the web-list of resources
Bookwebsites.com - Links to over 120,000 book-related websites in over 5,000 categories
Science
Science and the Artist's Book: An exhibit of the Smithsonian Museum Libraries and the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA).
Science Defined by the Hands of a Book Artist: By Sally Scott Maran and published in Smithsonian Magazine.
Science Museum (London)
