Book

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Collections of wood or ivory tablets, or sheets of paper, parchment, or similar material, that are blank, written on, or printed, and are strung or bound together; commonly many folded and bound sheets containing continuous printing or writing; especially, when printed, a bound volume, or a volume of some size.

This term has 2,576 records attributed within our system.

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Getty AAT term number

300028051

Broader Terms used

<information artifacts by physical form>

Narrower Terms used

<books by conditions of production>
<books by external form>
<books by internal form>

Term used for

books
codices (gathered leaves)

Created

14yrs ago

Connected records

The elements of heraldry, containing the definition, origin, and historical account of that ancient, useful, and entertaining science. The divers sorts of coats-of-arms in use ... The several marks by which bearers of the same coat-of-arms are distinguished from each other... Illustrated with several cuts, and twenty-four copper-plates, containing above five hundred examples of escutcheons, arms, &c. and interspersed with the natural history and allegorical signification of the several species of birds, beasts, fishes, vegetables, &c. comprised in this treatise. To which is annexed, a dictionary of the technical terms. Made use of in heraldry, &c

Maker(s)

Author: Porny, M. A.

Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants : exposés au Musée royal le 15 mars 1842

Maker(s)

Publisher: Salon (Exhibition : Paris, France)
Printer: Vinchon

Anthologie de poètes latins dite de Saumaise : Reproduction réduite du manuscrit en onciale, Latin 10318, de la Bibliothèque nationale.

Maker(s)

Editor: Omont, Henri Auguste
Publisher: Bibliothèque nationale (France)
Printer: Berthaud frères

A hand-book for visitors to Cambridge

Maker(s)

Author: Deck, Norris
Illustrator: Le Keux, John
Illustrator: Bonner, George Frederick
Illustrator: Byfield, Mary
Illustrator: Sly, Stephen
Illustrator: Jewitt, Thomas Orlando Sheldon
Printer: Metcalfe, William
Publisher: Bell and Daldy

Mendicant Rhymes

Maker(s)

Author: Housman, Laurence
Printer: Essex House Press

Monumens inédits de l'antiquité, statues, peintures antiques, pierres gravées, bas-reliefs de marbre et de terre cuite, expliqués par Winckelmann, gravés par David ... et par Mlle. Sibire, son élève: traduits de l'italien en français par A.F. Désodoards; pour compléter l'Histoire de l'art chez les anciens, et faire suite aux Antiquités d'Herculanum, aux Vases etrusques d'Hamilton, et au Musée de Florence ...

Maker(s)

Author: Winckelmann, Johann Joachim
Illustrator: David, François Anne
Illustrator: Sibire, Mlle
Bookseller: Leblanc

British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom : founded, June 4, 1805, opened, January 18, 1806 ; the Queen's most excellent Majesty, patroness : His Grace the Duke of Sutherland, K.G., President : the Right Hon. Lord Francis Egerton, M.P. Deputy President

Maker(s)

Publisher: British Institution
Printer: Nicol, William

Notitia dignitatum Imperii Romani : reproduction réduite des 105 miniatures du manuscrit latin 9661 de la Bibliothèque nationale.

Maker(s)

Editor: Omont, Henri Auguste
Publisher: Bibliothèque nationale (France)
Printer: Berthaud frères

Lettres illustrées de Édouard Manet

Maker(s)

Author: Manet, Edouard
Illustrator: Manet, Edouard
Contributor: Guiffrey, Jean
Publisher: Maurice Legarrec

The portraits of the most eminent painters, and other famous artists, that have flourished in Europe. Curiously engraved on above one hundred copper plates by F. Bouttats, P. de Jode Senior, P. de Jode Junior, W. Hollar, P. Pontius, J. Vorsterman, C. Waumans, &c. from original paintings of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, Gonzalo Coques ... and other celebrated masters. To which is prefixed, an account of their lives, characters and most considerable works, in French and English. Collected from the best authors extant, and the original manuscripts.

Maker(s)

Author: Resta, Sebastiano
Illustrator: Bouttats, Frederik II
Illustrator: Jode, Pieter I de
Illustrator: Jode, Pieter II de
Illustrator: Hollar, Wenceslaus
Illustrator: Pontius, Paulus
Illustrator: Vorsterman, Johannes
Illustrator: Waumans, Coenrad
Bookseller: Payne, Olive
Bookseller: Toms, William Henry

Patronage of British art : an historical sketch ; comprising an account of the rise and progress of art and artists in London, from the beginning of the reign of George the Second : together with a history of the Society for the Management and Distribution of the Artists' Fund, from its establishment in 1810, to its incorporation in 1827

Maker(s)

Author: Pye, John II
Publisher: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans

Notice des tableaux exposés dans la galerie du Musée.

Maker(s)

Publisher: Louvre
Printer: Dubray, L. P.

Das Guémadeuc Stundenbuch : Vollständige Faksimile-Ausgabe der Handschrift in Originalformat.

Maker(s)

Author: König, Eberhard
Publisher: Heribert Tenschert (Firm)

The first 10 : some ground covered at the Rampant Lions Press by Will Carter, 1949-58

Maker(s)

Author: Carter, Will
Printer: Carter, Will
Printer: Rampant Lions Press

The principles of painting, under the heads of anatomy ... &c. In which is contained an account of the Athenian, Roman, Venetian and Flemish schools. To which is added, The balance of painters being the names of the most noted painters, and their degrees of perfection in the four principal parts of their art : of singular use to those who would form an idea of the value of paintings and pictures

Maker(s)

Author: Piles, Roger de
Publisher: Osborn, J.

Anecdotes of the arts in England, or, Comparative remarks on architecture, sculpture, and painting : chiefly illustrated by specimens at Oxford

Maker(s)

Author: Dallaway, James
Publisher: Cadell, Thomas
Publisher: Davies, W.
Printer: Bensley, Thomas

Dictionary of the artists of antiquity : architects, carvers, engravers, modellers, painters, sculptors, statuaries, and workers in bronze, gold, ivory, and silver, with three chronological tables

Maker(s)

Author: Sillig, Julius
Translator: Williams, Henry W.
Author: Pliny, the Elder
Contributor: Barker, Edmund Henry
Publisher: Black and Armstrong

Apocalipsis Gulbenkian

Maker(s)

Author: Morgan, Nigel
Publisher: M. Moleiro Editor, S.A.

L’Ode à Picasso : poëme 1917

Maker(s)

Author: Cocteau, Jean
Publisher: La Belle Edition
Printer: Bernouard, François

British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom : founded, June 4, 1805, opened, January 18, 1806. The King's Most Excellent Majesty, Patron. The Most Noble the Marquis of Stafford, President. The Right Honourable Charles Long, Deputy President.

Maker(s)

Publisher: British Institution
Printer: W. Bulmer and Co.

L'art de peindre : Poëme. Avec des réflexions sur les différentes parties de la peinture

Maker(s)

Author: Watelet, Claude Henri
Illustrator: Watelet, Claude Henri
Illustrator: Lecomte, Marguerite
Illustrator: Pierre, Jean Baptiste Marie
Printer: Guerin, H. L.
Printer: Delatour, L. F.

Les grandes heures de la reine Anne de Bretagne et l'atelier de Jean Bourdichon

Maker(s)

Editor: Delisle, Léopold
Publisher: Damascène Morgan

British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom : founded, June 4, 1805, opened, January 18, 1806. The King's Most Excellent Majesty, Patron. The Earl of Aberdeen ..., President. The Lord Farnborough ..., Deputy President

Maker(s)

Publisher: British Institution
Printer: Nicol, William

Catalogue of the collection of old plate of William Francis Farrer at No. 7 St. James's Square, London

Maker(s)

Compiler: Jones, E. Alfred
Publisher: St. Catherine Press
Printer: Arden Press

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