Printing

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Books and Printing; a Treasury for Typophiles

Paul A. Bennett

Paul and the Printing Press

Sara Ware Bassett, also an audiobook

The Pentateuch of printing

William Blades

The Art & Practice of Typography

Edmund G. Gress

A short history of the printing press and of the improvements in printing machinery from the time of Gutenberg up to the present day

Robert Hoe

The Invention of Printing.

Theodore Low De Vinne

The Art and Craft of Printing

William Morris

Geofroy Tory

Auguste Bernard

The art of the book

Charles Holme

The Printed Book: Its History, Illustration and Adornment

Henri Bouchot

A History of the Old English Letter Foundries

Talbot Baines Reed

Pioneer Imprints from Fifty States

Roger J. Trienens and Library of Congress

A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898

Henry R. Plomer

The Early Oxford Press

Falconer Madan

Printing and the Renaissance

John Rothwell Slater

Fine Books

Alfred W. Pollard

Some Account of the Oxford University Press, 1468-1921

Oxford University Press

William Caxton

E. Gordon Duff

The History of the Catnach Press

Charles Hindley

The American Printer: A Manual of Typography

Thomas MacKellar

Abbreviations and Signs

Frederick W. Hamilton

The Story of Books

Gertrude Burford Rawlings, also an audiobook

The Book: Its History and Development

Cyril Davenport

The Magazine Style-Code

Leigh H. Irvine

Handbuch der Geschichte der Buchdruckerkunst. Erster Teil

Carl Berendt Lorck

German

Capitals

Frederick W. Hamilton

From xylographs to lead molds; A.D. 1440-A.D. 1921

H. C. Forster

Early Printed Books

E. Gordon Duff

Typesetting

A. A. Stewart

Manual of Style Governing Composition and Proof Reading in the Government Printing Office

United States. Government Printing Office

The Uses of Italic

Frederick W. Hamilton

The printers, stationers and bookbinders of Westminster and London from 1476 to 1535

E. Gordon Duff

Phaeton Rogers: A Novel of Boy Life

Rossiter Johnson

The Author's Printing and Publishing Assistant

Frederick Saunders

Rules for compositors and readers at the University Press, Oxford

Oxford University Press

Some Notes on Early Woodcut Books, with a Chapter on Illuminated Manuscripts

William Morris

In quest of the perfect book

William Dana Orcutt

The Daily Newspaper: The History of Its Production and Distibution

Anonymous

The Style Book of The Detroit News

Detroit news

Moxon's mechanick exercises, volume 1 (of 2)

Joseph Moxon

Paper and printing recipes

John Sawtelle Ford

The Printer in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg

Parke Rouse

The English provincial printers, stationers and bookbinders to 1557

E. Gordon Duff

John Baskerville, type-founder and printer, 1706-1775

Josiah H. Benton, Jr.

A Brief History of Printing. Part II: The Economic History of Printing

Frederick W. Hamilton

The ideal book or book beautiful

T. J. Cobden-Sanderson

A Brief History of Printing in England

Frederick W. Hamilton

Printing and bookbinding for schools

Samuel Jesse Vaughn