- Incunabula: Dawn of Western Printing--A
rich site, the chapter on typefaces and pages GfT types (with some images), the glossary and the page
of links are particularly worth examining.
exploring.
- Das fruehe deutsche Buchtitelblatt
database.
- The incunable
title page by Ursula Rautenberg--Follow the links to the project publications.
- Yale Rare
Book Team Signature Pagination Table
- Quire
Calculator--By Christopher Handy, for Macintosh
- Piccard Collection
of Watermarks in the Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart
- Watermark database of incunables printed in
the Low Countries--aka WILC
- Watermarks from the Biblioteca da
Ajuda
- Thomas L. Gravell Watermark
Archive
- Archive of Papers and
Watermarks in Greek Manuscripts
- British Library Database of
Bookbindings--Images and Descriptions
- German Database of 15th and 16th
Bindings
- Publishers' Bindings Online, 1815-1930: The Art of Books--From the University of Alabama
- SHARP Listing of Publishers' Records sites
- Major American
Publishers--From the Hyde Park Bookstore
- Index of Modern Paperback
Publishers--From the Hyde Park Bookstore
- Publishers' Trade List Annual
Index of Contributors and Advertisers 1873-1947--Under construction but has summary indices 1873-1910
- 19th Century
American Children's Book Trade Directory--American Antiquarian Society
- Exeter Working
Papers in British Book Trade History--Digitized list of book trade personnel
1775-1800 and other documents
- British Fiction 1800-1829 : a Database of Production,
Circulation & Reception
- British Book Trade Index
- Scottish
Book Trade Index
- Historical Directories--19th century British
commercial, trade and municipal directories
- Passe-Partout,
International Bank of Printers' Ornaments
- BCU Lausanne Banques de données d'ornements
d'imprimerie de la Réserve précieuse--This site includes the following sites among others
- Fleuron-Contains digitized version of many ornaments used by 18th
century Swiss printers, arranged by size
- Printers's Marks from
the University of Barcelona Library
- The
printer/publisher database at the Herzog August Bibliothek
- Printers'
Marks from the Biblioteca da Ajuda
- List of Printers from the
Utrecht University Library
- Paul Dijstelberger's Collection on
Type and Typography--A larger number of initials and illustrations from 16th century and earlier printers. Includes
Haebler's European Specimen Collection.
- American
Antiquarian Society's Guide to Dating American Tract Society Publications
- CERL Provenance page--Note the list
of online sources, arranged by geographical area
- Home Page for
the Lucille Project by Sid Huttner
- Robert's and
Etherington's Bookbinding and the Conservation of books : A Dictionary of
Descriptive Terminology
- Melbourne
Museum of Printing Glossary of Printing and Typography
- Uncorrected Proofs/Advance
Copies Glossary
- The
POP-UP World of Ann Montanaro--Exhibit with some useful information
and wonderful images
- Heraldica--An introductory site
- Web Access for
Manuscript-based Textual Scholarship--Note the sections on Paleography &
diplomatics, Codicology, Single authors & works, and Manuscript collections
- 17th and 18th century
paleographic (and other) resources online--Another gift from the Yale Rare Book Cataloging Team that
contains some wonderful sites
- Palaeography, reading old handwriting,
1500-1800--An online tutorial
- Medieval and Early Modern
Palaeography Courses--By David Postles, University of Leicester
-
Cours de Paleographie: Archive de course d'Arisitum--The 13 units and three exams of a course in
early modern French ms. hands.
- Scribal
abbreviations--Explanation of the system by Stephen Reimer
- Paleography:
punctuation--By Reimer as well
- Old German Handwritten
Scripts
- Fraktur Alphabet
- Greek ligatures
- Greek abbreviations
- Incunabula Short Title Catalog--Search Form Here
- COPAC--Union Catalogue of 24 British
research libraries plus the British Library and the National Library of Scotland
- Il
libro antico--Catalogazione e cataloghi di libri antichi--A large and growing
list
- LIBDEX Library Index by Countries
- LIBDEX list of Libraries and
Web catalogs by State
- English Short-Title Catalog 1473-1800
- American Antiquarian Society Catalogs
- Morgan Library of Ohio Imprints, 1796-1850
- Corsair, the Online Catalog of
the Pierpont Morgan Library
- Glasgow University
Library Special Collections Catalogues and Indexes
- Catalogue collectif de France,
CCFR--Click on Base patrimoine
- Inkunabel-Katalog
deutscher Bibliotheken (INKA)
- Inkunabelkatalog der
Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek
- Inkunabelkatalog
der UB Graz / Hans Zotter
- Inkuknablzensus Oesterreich
- Gesamtkatalog der
Wiegendrucke
- VD-16 -- Verzeichnis der im deutschen
Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts
- VD-17 -- Das
Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 17.
Jahrhunderts
- Catalogues and
Databases of the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbuettel
- Catalogo
colectivo del patrimonio bibliografico espanol
- Istituto centrale per il catalogo
unico --You can limit the search to "Libro antico"
- The Census of Italian 16th
Century Editions: EDIT 16--Also from the ICCU
- Cataleg del fons antic of
the University of Barcelona Library--Also search screens in English and Spanish
- Database of Nordic
Neo-Latin Literature --Not limited to books printed in Scandinavia
- Biblioteca digital Dioscorides--Includes catalog
and browse list by title and images of illustrations
- Biblioteca Nazionale
Marciana, Venice--Choose the Libro antico option
- Il
Seicento : Le Edizioni del Seicento possedute dall'Istituto Veneto di Scienze,
Lettere ed Arti--Over 600 17th century titles
- Empoli
Public Library "Renato Fucini" Catalogue of Sixteenth Century
Editions--Search by author, bookseller/printer, owner. Descriptions plus
digitized title pages and printer's marks
- Renaissance Liturgical Imprints : a Census--Includes search interface
and bibliographies
- Inkunabeln
der Universitaetsbibliothek Innsbruck--Arranged by Hain number
- Flemish Short Title Catalogue 1601-1700--Click on Access then on
the language in which you which to search
- Biblia Sacra, bibles printed in the Netherlands and Belgium,
1477-1600--With detailed descriptions and some reproductions
- John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera
at the Bodleian Library
- University of Glasgow Emblem
Site--Includes a short-title catalogue
This page was prepared for a workshop on Electronic Resources for
the Rare Book Cataloger held at the 1997 RBMS Preconference in Claremont,
California which was presented by Eric Holzenberg, Director and Librarian
of the Grolier Club, and Larry
Creider, Head of the General Cataloging Unit of the New Mexico State
University Library and former Head of the Original Cataloging
Department in the Information Processing Center in the Van
Pelt-Dietrich Library Center of the University of Pennsylvania
Libraries. The program was and, now, this web page is sponsored by the
Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books and
Manuscript Section of the
Association of College and Research Libraries of the American Library Association.
