Literary Resources -- Bibliography and History of the Book

• Resources for the History of Books and Printing (Dan Traister, Penn) -- Superb copious list of annotated links on book history.
• Library History Database (Robin Alston) -- A superbly learned database that covers library history in the British Isles to 1850.
• Societies, Centers, and Projects:
  • SHARP Web -- Information on the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing, with some useful links.
  • Bibliographical Society of America -- Information on the Society, with an introductory essay on descriptive bibliography by Terry Belanger, selected volumes of the Society's Papers, and links.
  • Bibliographical Society of Canada (Toronto) -- Information on the Society and some links.
  • History of the Book in Canada (Toronto) -- Information on the Project. English and French.
  • Oxford Early Printed Books Project -- Information on the Project to catalogue early books not in the Bodleian.
  • Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research (UCR) -- Information on the Center. Requires frames.
  • The University of Iowa Center for the Book -- Information on the Center.
  • Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia -- Information on the Society and links to other sites.
  • Printing Historical Society (Reading, UK) -- Information on the Society.
  • Centre for Editorial and Intertextual Research (Cardiff) -- Information on the Centre and its publications.
• Information for Collectors and Dealers:
  • Books & Book Collecting -- A good collection of miscellaneous links and services for book collectors, as well as links to discussion groups.
  • Essentials of Book Collecting -- Hypertext essay on book collecting.
  • Bibliophile Research Tools 1 -- Links to a handful of useful resources for collectors and dealers.
• Descriptive Bibliography: An On-Line Tutorial (Stephen Ramsay, Virginia) -- "This site endeavors to provide students, literary scholars, book collectors, and other interested parties with a brief introduction to the notational paradigms of traditional descriptive bibliography (quasi-facsimile transcription, collation-formulae, bibliographic reference, and some of the various items found in textual apparatus). The tutorial assumes only basic knowledge of the physical properties of conventional print media, and provides examples of both descriptive notation and the sources from which such notation is drawn." A very useful introduction to descriptive bibliography, using a 1550 edition of Sophocles' Seven Tragedies for its examples. Requires frames.
• Cultural Readings: Colonization and Print in the Americas (Penn Libraries) -- Exhibition on early American print culture.
• History of the Book @ Oxford -- "Dedicated webspace for all History of the Book events and resources in and around the University of Oxford."
• Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World (Bruce Jones, UCSD) -- A hypertext essay on book history.
• Digital Watermark & Ornament Catalogue (David L. Gants, Virginia) -- Very scholarly study of the watermarks and type ornaments in William Stansby's edition of Ben Jonson's Workes.
• Karpeles Manuscript Library -- Images of some of the rare MSS in the collection.
• A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek -- Images from the collection.
• Graphion's Online Type Museum -- "Information about the history and practice of typesetting." Biographical sketches of and facsimiles of works by Gutenberg, Caxton, Manutius, Caslon, Baskerville, Bodony, Goudy, Gill, and Tschichold.
• Unofficial D. F. McKenzie Home Page (Oxford) -- Information on the bibliographer and book historian.
• TEXT Reviews (Mississippi State) -- Full text of the on-line journal on textual scholarship.