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Reference Library
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Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Morison, Stanley, 1889–1967
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Reed, Talbot Baines, 1852–1893
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Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860–1941
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Chappell, Warren, 1904–1991
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Dreyfus, John
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Fournier, le jeune (Pierre Simon), 1712–1768
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Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
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Isaac, Frank, b. 1882
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Johnson, A. F. (Alfred Forbes)
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Johnson, Henry Lewis
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Lewis, John, 1912–1996
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Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, 1805–1861
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Vervliet, Hendrik D. L
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Accessible by appointment in the Study Room
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Under Certain Circumstances
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Books
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20th century
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19th century
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specimen
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bibliographie
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chromoxylograph
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history
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wood engraving
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Type and type-founding.
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Printing -- Specimens.
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Printing -- History.
5
Rollins, Carl Purington 1880–1960 -- Ownership.
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Printing -- Great Britain -- History.
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Printing.
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Title pages.
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Advertising -- Specimens.
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Bell, John, 1745–1831.
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Books -- History.
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Books.
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Bowes & Bowes and Putnam -- Publisher.
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Chappell, Warren, 1904–1991.
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Color printing.
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Decoration and ornament, Renaissance.
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Early printed books -- Netherlands -- 16th century -- Bibliography.
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Early printed books.
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Illustrated books -- History -- 15th and 16th centuries.
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Incunabula -- Facsimiles.
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15th and 16th centuries
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16th century
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Great Britain
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Netherlands
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Bell, John, 1745–1831
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Chappell, Warren, 1904–1991
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Mary E. Oake.
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English
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Dreyfus, John
Type specimen facsimiles;
1963
2
Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810–1879
Masterpieces of the early printers & engravers
1870
3
Sotheby, Samuel Leigh, 1805–1861
The typography of the fifteenth century
1845
4
Fournier, le jeune (Pierre Simon), 1712–1768
Fournier on typefounding ;
[1973]
5
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860–1941
Printing types
1951
6
Vervliet, Hendrik D. L
Sixteenth-century printing types of the Low Countries
[1968]
7
Lewis, John, 1912–1996
Printed ephemera;
1962]
8
Chappell, Warren, 1904–1991
My life with letters
1974
9
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860–1941
Printing types, their history, forms, and use;
1922
10
Morison, Stanley, 1889–1967
John Bell, 1745-1831;
1930
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Isaac, Frank, b. 1882
English & Scottish printing types,
1930-32
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Morison, Stanley, 1889–1967
Four centuries of fine printing
1949
13
Reed, Talbot Baines, 1852–1893
A history of the old English letter foundries;
[1952]
14
Morison, Stanley, 1889–1967
The typographic book, 1450-1935;
c1963]
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Johnson, Henry Lewis
Decorative ornaments and alphabets of the Renaissance
1991
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Johnson, A. F. (Alfred Forbes)
Selected essays on books and printing
1970 [1971]
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Printing in the twentieth century,
1930
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Reed, Talbot Baines, 1852–1893
A history of the old English letter foundries,
1887