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Centre for Manuscript and Print Studies (a "new research centre created from the merger of the Centre for Palaeography and the Research Centre in the History of the Book"; site has events info, links, and more) (Institute of English Studies, London) |
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Early Printed Books Project, Oxford U. |
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Recent Studies of 18th-Century Book Culture (bibliography on bibliophilia and related topics) (James E. May, Pennsylvania State U.) |
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The Infancy of Printing: Incunabula at the Golda Meir Library (virtual exhibit, with text and images on the transition from manuscript culture to print, early prints, and more) (U. Wisconsin, Milwaukee) |
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Bruce Jones (U. California, San Diego) Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World (articles on the history of the book) |
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Bruce Jones , "The History of Printing" (U. California, San Diego),
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The Nineteenth Century in Print: Books (part of The Making of America in Books and Periodicals; virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and U. of Michigan) |
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Saul Blumenthal (Massachusetts I. of Technology) The Print and The Book: A look at the relation between prints and books over four centuries. (virtual exhibits, with sections on the Nuremberg Chronicle, Night Thoughts, Voyages Pittoresques, and the Kelmscott Chaucer) |
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Printing Historical Society (organization homepage, includes journal information and links to sites on printing history) |
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Printing: Renaissance & Reformation (virtual exhibit, with images arrange din sections, with text by Patrick Scott and Roger Mortimer) (Thomas Cooper Library, University of South Carolina |
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Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders, & Book Designers (virtual exhibit, with articles, images, and more) (Rebecca W. Davidson, Princeton U. Library) |
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Lynne M. Fors (U. Illinois Library) Chez La Veuve: Women Printers in Great Britain 1475-1700 (virtual exhibit, with images and articles) |
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Color Printing in the Nineteenth Century (virtual exhibit, featuring works by Audobon and others) (Hugh M. Morris Library, U. Delaware) |
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Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas (virtual exhibit, with sections arranged by topic, including essays and links) (U. Pennsylvania) |
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James A. Dewar "The Information Age and the Printing Press: Looking Backward to See Ahead" (essay)(RAND) |
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Silk Road: Trade, Travel, War and Faith (virtual exhibit, with focus on the Diamond Sutra, the "earliest printed book to bear a date (11 May, 868)" and "now one of the greatest treasures in the British Library) (the British Museum, and the British Library, London, UK) |
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Dresden: Treasures from the Saxon State Library (virtual exhibit, on the manuscript and print collections, on later history, through the Romantic period) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC) |
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the Gutenberg Bible (among the Treasures of the British Library, with two e-texts of Gutenberg prints, biographical background, and more) (the British Library, London) |
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Phil Bishop and Scott Anderson The Mosher Press (pages devoted to the history of the printer Thomas Bird Mosher) |
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Periodicals and Newspapers |
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British Newspaper Coverage of the French Revolution (a small archive of articles from the London Times and Morning Chronicle of 1792-93 designed to assist in study of Romanticism and the Revolution; also includes William Wordsworth's Salisbury Plain and an excerpt from Thomas Carlyle's French Revolution) (Alan Liu, U. California, Santa Barbara) |
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British Periodicals at Minnesota: The Early Nineteenth Century ("The following handlist reports many periodicals that began publication in Great Britain between 1801 and 1850, and also some that began their careers in the eighteenth century or earlier and continued to publish after 1800") (Michael Hancher, U. Minnesota) |
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The London Gazette (selected online issues of the Restoration-era gazette) (Electronic Historical Publications) |
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The Nineteenth Century in Print: Periodicals (part of The Making of America in Books and Periodicals; virtual exhibit) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC, and U. of Michigan) |
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Penny Magazine Online (etexts of 1830's UK publication aimed at the "working classes") (U. Rochester) |
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RSAP: Research Society for American Periodicals (includes resource page with scans of periodicals ffrom the 19th-21 centuries, society info, and more) (Ellen Gruber Garvey) |
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RSVP: Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (society info, links) ( |
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Imperial Views, Colonial Subjects: Victorian Periodicals and the Empire (images and text from a 1999 exhibition at the Sterling Memorial Library) (Yale U.) |
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Printmaking: On Line Information |
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Homepage (Arvon Wellen, Anglia Polytechnic U., Cambridge, UK) |
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Links Related to Printmaking |
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Printmaking Techniques and History |
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Renaissance Dante in Print (1472-1629) |
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Homepage (Theodore Cachey, Louis Jordan, Christian Dupont, Mark Olsen) |
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Dante Chronology (text) |
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Dante's Hell |
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History of Dante Title Pages |
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UK Print History |
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Caxton's Chaucer (offers full e-texts of Caxton's 2 prints, along with biographical background, and more) (the British Library, London, UK) |
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English Caricature Prints: 1720-1820 (virtual exhibit, with text by Edward Hammond) (Haley and Steele, Boston, MA) |
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The Lifeof Thomas Gent: Printer of York, 1693-1778 (e-text of 1832 edition of Gent's autobiography, plus biographical info) (Thorn Gent) |
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William Hogarth and 18th-Century Print Culture (virtual exhibit, wtih sections on techinque, theatricality, physiogonbomy, politics, and more) (Charles Deering McCormick Library of Special Collections, Northwestern U.) |
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The London Gazette (selected online issues of the Restoration-era gazette) (Electronic Historical Publications) |
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William Morris |
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Founders of the Arts and Crafts Movement (anthology of primary sources, taken from W. Morris, W. Crane, O. Wilde and other key players in the Arts and Crafts movement, along with links) (J.R. Burrows and Company, Rockland, MA) |
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Saul Blumenthal (Massachusetts I. of Technology) The Kelmscott Chaucer (virtual exhibit, within the Print and the Book e-exhibit) |
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William Morris and His Circle (virtual exhibit, with articles and images, with sections on Morris's art, socialism, the history of his press, and more) (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, U. Texas, Austin) |
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William Morris (biography, with bibliography, especially of Morris's literary career) (Camelot Project, U. Rochester) |
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The Noble Craftsmen We Promote: Roots of Arts and Crafts (virtual exhibit page, focused on Morris and Ruskin and their influence on American theries of design) (Carlson Library, U. Toledo) |
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William Morris Why I Am a Socialist (1896) (excerpt, within Fordham U.'s Modern history Sourcebook) (Paul Halsall, U. North Florida) |
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The Pursuit of the Ideal: The Life and Art of William Morris (virtual exhibit, with sections on Writings, Socialism, the Kelmscott Press, and biography) (Special Collections Library, U. Michigan |
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William Morris Home Society |
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William Morris (U. Toronto) |
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Newspaper readership in south west England: an analysis of the Flindell's Western Luminary subscribers list of 1815 (database, in the Exeter Working Papers in British Book Trade History series) (Ian Maxted, Devon County Council) |
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RSVP: Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (society info, links) ( |
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Lynne M. Fors (U. Illinois Library) Chez La Veuve: Women Printers in Great Britain 1475-1700 (virtual exhibit, with images and articles) |
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The Floating World of Ukiyo-e: Shadow, Dreams, and Substance (virtual exhibit, with image-filled articles arranged by topic, focusing on the 17th-19th centuries) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC) |
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US Print History |
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From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822-1909 (virtual exhibit on the collection) (and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC) |
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Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas (virtual exhibit, with sections arranged by topic, including essays and links) (U. Pennsylvania) |
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An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera (virtual exhibit on the collection) (and the Library of Congress, Washington, DC) |
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Creative Space: Fifty Years of Robert Blackburn's Printmaking Workshop (virtual exhibit, with lithographic images and cultural and historical background) (Library of Congress, Washington, DC) |
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American Printing History Association (organization homepage, including links to related sites) |
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RSAP: Research Society for American Periodicals (includes resource page with scans of periodicals ffrom the 19th-21 centuries, society info, and more) (Ellen Gruber Garvey) |
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Books Go to War: The Armed Services Editions in World War Two (virtual exhibit of 1996 exhibition at the Dome Room of the Rotunda) (U. Virginia) |
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