BIBLIOGRAPHY

Book Arts Bibliography

The following books contain half a lifetime's worth of reading but the list itself is just a work in progress. There are hundreds more waiting to be added.

General

Diringer, David The Book Before Printing: Ancient, Medieval and Oriental. New York: Dover Publications, 1982. Originally published in London by Hutchinson's Scientific and Technical Publications in 1953 under the title The Hand-Produced Book.

Ege, Otto F. "The Story of the Alphabet: Its Evolution and Development" in Books and Printing: A Treasury for Typophiles, ed. Paul A. Bennett. Cleveland & NY: World Publishing, 1951.

Ogg, Oscar The 26 Letters. New York: VNR, Revised ed. 1983.

Bookbinding

Cockerell, Douglas Bookbinding and the Care of Books. illustrated by Noel Rooke. London: Pitman, 1901; 5th edition 1953, with an appendix by Sydney M. Cockerell.

Diehl, Edith Bookbinding: Its Background and Technique. New York: Dover Publications, 1980. Originally published in 1946.

Johnson, Arthur W. The Thames and Hudson Manual of Bookbinding. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.

Lewis, A.W. Basic Bookbinding. New York: Dover Publications, 1957.

Middleton, Bernard C. A History of English Craft Bookbinding Technique, with a foreword by Howard M. Nixon. London: The British Library, and New Castle: The Oak Knoll Press; 4th edition 1996.

Papermaking

Heller, Joshua Papermaking. New York: Watson-Guptill Publications, 1978.

Hunter, Dard Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. New York: Dover Publications, 1978. Originally published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. in 1943, revised in 1947.

Kern, Marna Elyea The Complete Book of Handcrafted Paper. New York: Coward, McCann & Geohegan, 1980.

Long, Paulette (ed) Paper - Art & Technology. San Francisco: World Print Council, 1979.

Mason, John Paper Making as an Artistic Craft, with illustrations by Rigby Graham. London: Faber and Faber, 1959.

Studley, Vance The Art & Craft of Handmade Paper. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1977.

Paper Decorating

Grunebaum, Gabriele How to Marbleize Paper: Step-by-Step Instructions for 12 Traditional Patterns. New York: Dover Publications, 1984.

Conservation

Baynes-Cope, A.D. Caring for Books and Documents. London: British Museum Publications, 1981.

Clapp, Anne F. Curatorial Care of Works of Art on Paper. New York: Nick Lyons Books, 3rd Revised Edition, 1978.

Horton, Carolyn Cleaning and Preserving Bindings and Related Materials, Second Edition, Revised. Chicago: Library Technology Program, American Library Association, 1969.

Calligraphy

Benson, John Howard and Carey, Arthur Graham The Elements of Lettering. Rhode Island: John Stevens, 1940.

Degering, Hermann Lettering: Modes of Writing in Western Europe from Antiquity to the End of the 18th Century. Tubingen: Verlag Wasmuth (Pentalic), 1965.

Drogin, Marc Medieval Calligraphy: Its History and Technique. New York: Dover Publications, 1980.

Johnston, Edward Writing & Illuminating & Lettering. London: Pitman Publishing, 1971.

Lamb, C.M. (ed.) The Calligrapher's Handbook. London: Faber and Faber, 2nd Edition, 1968.

Miner, Dorothy E. compiler, 2000 Years of Calligraphy, an Exhibition Organized [1965] by the Baltimore Museum of Art, et al. New Jersey: Rowman & Littlefield, 1972.

Standard, Paul Calligraphy's Flowering, Decay, & Restauration. Chicago: The Society of Typographic Arts, 1947.

Stribley, Miriam (compiler) The Calligraphy Sourcebook. London: Quarto Books, 1986.

Typography

Bringhurst, Robert The Elements of Typographic Style. Vancouver and Washington: Hartley & Marks, 1992.

Dair, Carl Design With Type. Toronto and Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, 1967, reissued in paperback 1982.

Gill, Eric An Essay on Typography. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1960.

Goudy, Frederic W. Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1977.

Goudy, Frederic W. The Capitals from the Trajan Column at Rome. New York: Oxford University Press, 1936.

Morison, Stanley First Principles of Typography. New York, The Macmillan Company, 1936.

Simon, Oliver Introduction to Typography. London: Faber and Faber, 2nd Edition, 1969.

Tracy, Walter The Typographic Scene. London: Gordon Fraser, 1988.

Zapf, Hermann About Alphabets: Some Marginal Notes on Type Design. Cambridge, Mass. and London: MIT Press, 1970.

Printing

Ryder, John Printing for Pleasure. London: The Bodley Head, 1976.

Steinberg, S.H. Five Hundred Years of Printing. Revised by John Trevitt. London: The British Library, and New Castle: The Oak Knoll Press, 1996.

Wood Engraving

Chamberlain, Walter The Thames and Huson Manual of Woodcut Printmaking and Related Techniques. London: Thames and Hudson, 1978.

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