ABHB Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries

1. Front Matter

   Pages II-23

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2. General Works about the History of the Printed Book and Library

   • Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

   Pages 24-27

3. Paper, Inks, Printing Materials

   • Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

   Pages 27-29

4. Calligraphy, Type Design, Typefounding

   • Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

   Pages 29-33

5. Layout, Composing, Printing, Presses, Printed Books

   • Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

   Pages 33-65

6. Book Illustration

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   Pages 65-77

7. Bookbinding

   • Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

   Pages 77-81

8. Book Trade, Publishing

   • Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

   Pages 81-98

9. Bibliophily, Book-Collecting

   • Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

   Pages 98-108

10. Institutions, Libraries, Librarianship, Scholarship

    • Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

    Pages 108-129

11. Legal, Economic, Social Aspects

    • Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

    Pages 129-135

12. Newspapers, Journalism

    • Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

    Pages 136-149

13. Relation to Secondary Subjects

    • Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

    Pages 149-196

14. Back Matter

    Pages 197-225

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The history of printing, books, and libraries, is confined only to a limited extent within the boundaries of individual countries. There are, indeed, few historical developments which have played a more universal role, in reaction against all kinds of particularism, than type design, printing, book production, publishing, illustration, binding, librarianship, journal­ ism, and related subjects. Their history should be assessed and studied primarily in an international, not in a local, context. The bibliographical resources, however, which the historian of these sub­ jects has at his disposal correspond hardly at all to the essentially inter­ national character of the object of his studies. Since the appearance of the retrospective bibliography of BIG MORE and WYMAN, covering the subject comprehensively up to 1880, the only current bibliography has been the lnternatwnale Bibliographie des Buch-und Bi­ bliothekswesens. Covering a representative part of newly published liter­ ature, it appeared from 1928, but did not survive the Second World War. More recently, several useful, but limited, bibliographies have appeared.

• China
• Germany
• Hungary
• Italy
• Japan
• Presse
• Switzerland
• USA
• institutions
• mathematics
• publishing
• sweden
• trade

• University Library, Wilrijk-Antwerp, Belgium

  Hendrik D. L. Vervliet

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