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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<books by conditions of production>
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14yrs ago
Author:
Godley, Elizabeth
Illustrator:
Whistler, Reginald John (Rex)
Publisher:
Chatto and Windus
Editor:
Moore, George
Publisher:
Nonesuch Press
Printer:
Edinburgh University Press
Author:
Montagu, James Augustus
Publisher:
Pickering, William
Printer:
C. Whittingham
Author:
Nisbet, Alexander
Publisher:
Blackwood, William
Publisher:
Rodwell and Martin
Author:
Haydon, Benjamin Robert
Illustrator:
Evans, Edward
Publisher:
Longman & Co.
Author:
Shakespeare, William
Editor:
Deakin, Brian
Publisher:
Officina Bodoni
Binder (person):
Sotheran
Author:
Creuzevault, Colette
Publisher:
Editions de Montfort
Author:
Swift, Jonathan
Contributor:
Whistler, Laurence
Illustrator:
Whistler, Reginald John (Rex)
Publisher:
Herbert Press
Designer:
Hadfield, John
Printer:
Butler & Tanner Ltd.
Binder (person):
Butler & Tanner Ltd.
Author:
Bates, H. E.
Illustrator:
Parker, Agnes Miller
Publisher:
Victor Gollancz
Printer:
Camelot Press
Author:
Gibbings, Robert John
Illustrator:
Gibbings, Robert John
Publisher:
J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd
Author:
Masters, Robert
Author:
Lamb, John, 1789-1850
Printer:
Smith, John (printer)
Printer:
Cambridge University Press
Printer:
John Murray
Author:
Donne, John
Editor:
Simpson, Evelyn Mary
Publisher:
Nonesuch Press
Designer:
Meynell, Francis
Printer:
Johnson, John (printer)
Printer:
Oxford University Press
Author:
Shaw, Henry
Publisher:
Pickering, William
Author:
Milton, John
Illustrator:
Blake, William
Printer:
Lewis, Walter
Printer:
Cambridge University Press
Printer:
Chiswick Press
Designer:
Bliss, Douglas Percy
Designer:
Meynell, Francis
Author:
Creuzevault, Colette
Publisher:
Editions de Montfort
Translator:
Harrison, Jane
Translator:
Mirrless, Hope
Illustrator:
Garnett, Ray
Publisher:
Nonesuch Press
Printer:
R. and R. Clark Ltd.
Auctioneer:
Langford and Son
Auctioneer:
Langford, Abraham
Illustrator:
Banck, Jan van der
Chambars, Thomas
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