BULLETIN (Issued Quarterly) APRIL, 1912

Vol. 5, No. 2

A

FINDING LIST

OF

Books relating to Printing, Book Industries, Libraries and Bibliography in the Virginia State Library

A FINDING LIST OF BOOKS RELATING TO PRINTING, BOOK INDUSTRIES, LIBRARIES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

BY EARL G. SWEM.

This finding list includes titles of the books in the classes of Printing, Book Industries, Libraries, and Bibliography in the Virginia State Library. The titles are arranged alphabetically under a few leading subject headings. In the index at the end the names of authors, editors, translators, and subject words of titles are arranged in one alphabet.

HISTORY OF BOOKS AND BOOK MAKING.

Bouchot, H. F. X. M. The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. With a treatise on the art of collecting and describing early printed books, and a Latin-English and English-Latin topographical index of the earliest printing places. Ed. by H. Grevel. 1890. Z4 B76.

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"Containing one hundred and seventy-two fac-similes of early typography, book-illustrations, printers' marks, bindings, numerous borders, initials, head and tail pieces, and a frontispiece."

First translated into English by E. C. Bigmore and issued in 1887 under title: The printed book; its history, illustration and adornment.

"The art of describing and cataloguing incunabula" (p. [322]-351) is a translation of Anton Einsle's Incunabel bibliographie, Wien, 1888.

Davenport, C. J. H. The book, its history and development. Illustrated. 1908. Z4 D28.

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Hitchcock, F. H. The building of a book; a series of practical articles written by experts in the various departments of book making and distribution, with an introduction by Theodore L. De Vinne; ed. by F. H. Hitchcock. [1906] Z4 H55.

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Contents. Introduction, by T. L. De Vinne. The author, by G. W. Cable. The literary agent, by P. R. Reynolds. The literary adviser, by F. W. Halsey. - The manufacturing department, by L. L. Walton. - The making of type, by L. B. Benton.Hand composition and electrotyping, by J. S. Cushing. - Composition by the linotype machine, by F. J. Warburton. Composition by the monotype machine, by P. Nathan. -Proof-reading, by G. L. Miller.Paper making, by H. W. Mason.Presswork, by W. J. Berwick. The printing press, by O. L. Raabe.Printing ink, by J. A. Ullman.— The printer's roller, by A. S. Burlingham.-The illustrator, by C. D. Williams.-Half-tone, Iine, and color plates, by E. M. Gill.-The

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wax process, by R. D. Servoss.Making intaglio plates, by Latham.-Printing intaglio plates, by G. W. H. Ritchie. -The gelatine process, by E. Jacobi.-Lithography, by C. Wilhelms. -Cover designing, by A. Richards. The cover stamps, by G. Becker.-Book cloths, by H. P. Kendall.-Book leathers, by E. C. Bartlett.-The binding, by J. F. Tapley. --Special bindings, by H. Blackwell. - Copyrighting, by F. H. Hitchcock.Publicity, by V. Burnett.-Reviewing and criticising, by W. Littlefield. -The travelling salesman, by H. А. Thompson.-Selling at wholesale,

by J. E. Bray. -Selling at retail, by W. Snyder.-Selling by subscription, by C. S. Olcott. -Selling at auction, by J. Anderson, jr. - Selecting for a public library, by A. E. Bostwick.Rare and second-hand books, by C. E. Goodspeed.

Putman, G. H. Books and their makers during the middle ages; a study of the conditions of the production and distribution of literature from the fall of the Roman empire to the close of the seventeenth century. 1896-97.2 v. 24 P99.

Bibliography: v. 1, p. xvii-xxvii.

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WRITING.

Autographs, Shorthand, Paleography.

Anderson, Thomas. History of short-1 sale conducted by Stan V. Hen

hand, with a review of its present condition and prospects in Europe and America. 1882. Z53 A55.

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"Supplementary lists of writers on shorthand": p. 193-210. "American authors": p. 226-228. "American shorthand writers': p. 228-230. "London newspaper repor

ters": p. 266-272. "London short- Goodspeed's book shop. Catalogs. hand writers" p. 273-276.

Z42 G65.

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Baer, J., & co. Catalogs. 242 B14. 6 Smith, G. D. Catalogs. 242 S64. 12 Burnham, Т. О. Н. Р. Catalogue of

the valuable collection of auto- Wright, Andrew. Court-hand

graphs of T. O. H. P. Burnham, including scarce Revolutionary broadsides of Sir Henry Clinton and Burgoyne, capitulation of Charleston, etc., with fine specimens of such names as Major Ben. Church, Generals Braddock, Burgoyne, Carlton. To be sold at auction, May 25th, and 26th. Charles F. Libbie & co. auctioneers. 1888. Z42 B96.

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stored: or, The student's assistant
in reading old deeds, charters,
records, etc., neatly engraved on
twenty-three
copper-plates, de-
scribing the old law hands, with
their contractions and abbrevia-
tions. With an appendix; con-
taining the ancient names
places in Great Britain and Ire-
land; an alphabetical table of an-
cient surnames; and
glosso-
graphy of Latin words found in
the works of the most eminent
lawyers, and other ancient writ-
ings. 6th ed., cor. 1822. Z113 W
95.

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With the introductions to the first edition. 1773, and to the 4th and 5th editions.

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