Related Book Arts Web Sites

• Book Arts Web
• —Peter Verheyen's web site includes links to Internet resources on book arts as well as a gallery of images of contemporary book bindings and other book art.
• Book History
• —Annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing, Inc. (SHARP).
• Book Information Website
• —An extensive site with many resources and links dealing with all aspects of books, book arts, book history, printing, programs, conservation, book artists, and book search services. Hosted by Knops Boekrestauratie, Conservation & Restoration of Books and Paper. 
• Book Lovers, Fine Books & Literature
• Electronic Books
• —Hosted by the University of Texas, Austin. 
• Colophon Page: Modern Illustrated and Fine Press Books  
• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls
• —Browse through Stanford's Dime Novel and Story Paper Collection, includes many images. 
• Early Printed Books Project
• —From the University of Oxford covering early printed books in Oxford Libraries outside the Bodleian. 
• Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
• Essentials of Bookcollecting
• —A multi-part essay by Robert F. Lucas including "Bookcollecting on the Internet" 
• Guild of Book Workers
• —Focused on interest among workers in the several hand book crafts. 
• Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
• —"A selection of manuscripts, printed works, book bindings, and specimens from the paper history collection in the Department of Special Collections presented with explanatory notes." From the National Library of the Netherlands. 
• Is it a Book?
• —A page on nonlinearity in literature and the book arts by Karen Drayne (a.k.a. Powell), Barbara Davison, and Emily-Jane Dawson. Now hosted by the Book Arts Web. 
• MFLIBRA
• —A French-language Web site (based in Montréal) devoted to antiquarian books.
• National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC)
• —A free-of-charge cooperative cataloging program operated by the Library of Congress. 
• New Jersey Books Arts
• —A sampling of artist's books by New Jersey designers. 
• Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association  
• Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger
• —Sponsored by the Bibliographic Standards Committee of the American Library Association's Rare Books and Manuscripts Section. 
• The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry  
• SHARP Web: Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing
• —SHARP is devoted to the study of book history and related topics such as authorship, editing, printing, publishing, the book trade, copy right, censorship, literary agents, libraries, literary criticism, canon formation, literacy, reading habits, and reader response. 
• Sotheby's

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