Archive of http://delicious.com/earlybooks
- Key differences between AACR2 and DCRM(B) [PDF]
- Major rule changes between the two standards, prepared by the Bibliographic Standards Committee of CILIP's Rare Books and Special Collections Group. [Original text: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~bodl0842/publications/keydifferences.doc]
- Provenance names found in printed books (St John's College Library, Oxford) [PDF]
- Alphabetical index as of July 2009 [ linked from http://web.sjc.ox.ac.uk/1435/Provenances.html ]
- Historic Libraries Forum brief guides to non-English languages. 1, Latin [PDF]
- Case endings, place names and other useful details. Written by Peter Hoare, June 2009.
- The Bodleian Incunable Catalogue [PDF]
- Fifteenth-century printed books in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Includes indexes of authors, printers and provenance names.
- Fingerprint
- Fingerprints manual (1984) and newsletters (1981, 1985, 1994) as PDF files, together with a bibliography.
- ISBD(A): International Standard Bibliographic Description for Older Monographic Publications (Antiquarian)
- 2nd rev. ed., 1991, from IFLA.
- From DCRB to DCRM(B)
- Major rule changes between the two standards, prepared by the Bibliographic Standards Committee of CILIP's Rare Books and Special Collections Group.
- Descriptive Cataloging of 19th-Century Books / Manon Théroux
- [Site down] Peculiarities of 19th century publishing that fall between DCRM and AACR.
- Guidelines for the Cataloguing of Rare Books (CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group)
- 2007 revision, including sample provenance and binding descriptions.
- RBMS/BSC Guidelines for Establishing Certain Names Associated with Printers
- How to formulate headings for partnerships, heirs, and widows. Preserved in the Internet Archive.
- British Bookbindings: 16th-19th century
- Photographs of bindings, chronologically arranged, from an exhibition at Glasgow University.
- Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog KVK
- Virtual union catalogue of academic libraries in German-speaking countries and other national libraries.
- CERL Resources
- The Hand Press Book database (HPB), CERL Thesaurus, CERL Portal, provenance information and web resources.
- Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC)
- Antiquarisch woordenboek in vier talen = Antiquarian dictionary in four languages
- In English, German, Dutch and French. 3rd ed., compiled by Jelle Samshuijzen.
- Some statistics on the history of publishing extracted from the ESTC (Alain Veylit)
- Compiled in 2000 and preserved in the Internet Archive, so not all slides are available. See also http://musickshandmade.com/projects/ESTC_charts/
- Bibliographical fingerprints
- How to construct or verify the two principal types of fingerprint.
- Census of Italian 16th Century Editions (EDIT 16)
- Online catalogue of books 'printed in Italy between 1501 and 1600, in any language, and editions printed abroad in Italian'. Includes database of printers' devices.
- Universal Short Title Catalogue
- The USTC aims to list all books published in Europe before 1061.
- ESTC: English Short-Title Catalog (1473-1800)
- 'Every surviving copy of letterpress produced in England or any of its dependencies, in any language, worldwide, from 1473-1800.' With a link to the public search at http://estc.bl.uk/
- STCV: Short Title Catalogus Vlaanderen
- An online bibliography of books printed in 17th-century Flanders (Antwerp, Ghent, Leuven, etc.)
- Short Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN)
- The Dutch retrospective bibliography for the period 1540-1800.
- The London book trades 1775-1800: a preliminary checklist of members (Ian Maxted)
- Also available at: http://www.devon.gov.uk/localstudies/100155/1.html
- Analytical bibliography: an alternative prospectus / Neil Harris
- Elegant survey of the history and future of bibliography with extensive references and a fascinating final miscellany.
- The identification of format: Key I: Large and medium formats
- Reproduced from Gaskell's 'A new introduction to bibliography' by the ESTC.
- The identification of format: Key II: Small formats
- Reproduced from Gaskell's 'A new introduction to bibliography' by the ESTC.
- Hand Bookbindings: Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious (Princeton University Library)
- Photographs from an exhibition, grouped by genre and structure, with interactive magnifying glass.
- Greek Ligatures in Early Modern Printed Books / by William Barker and Walter Colman
- [site down]
- Latin abbreviations, etc.: some further examples
- How to deal with unfamiliar characters. From the University of Michigan Text Creation Partnership.
- Signature-Pagination Table (for a 23-Letter Alphabet) / Rare Book Team, Yale University Library
- For verifying collational formulas and for counting unnumbered pages.
- RBMS Controlled Vocabularies for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloging
- Binding Terms, Genre Terms, Paper Terms, Printing & Publishing Evidence, Provenance Evidence, Type Evidence and Relator Terms.
- Database of Bookbindings / The British Library
- Images of bookbindings searchable by binder, owner, country, material, period etc.
- ALA-LC Romanization Tables [PDF]
- Hebrew Numbers
- Clear explanation of the use of Hebrew letters as numerals.
- Name list of printers in the Utrecht University Library
- Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology (Etherington & Roberts, 1982)
- Names of printing towns (Cathedral Libraries Catalogue)
- Orbis Latinus online / Dr. J. G. Th. Graesse
- 2nd ed. (1909)
- Glossary of Common Latin Terms Found in Imprints of Early Printed Books / Robert L. Maxwell
- RBMS/BMC Latin Place Names File
- Latin names with AACR2 forms and MARC country codes.
- OLIS Cataloguing Manual for Antiquarian Materials
- The second edition (1998), not incorporating the 2005 revisions.
- Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books
- 2nd ed. (1991), now superseded by DCRM(B).
- Compositorial practices and the localization of printed books, 1530-1800 / by R.A. Sayce
- Classic paper in The Library (fifth series, vol. XXI, no. 1, 1966). [PDF; subscription required]
- HoBo: Book history events and other resources
- Scottish Book Trade Index (SBTI)
- British Book Trade Index (BBTI)
- Index of book trade personnel in England and Wales who were trading by 1851.
- ABC for Book Collectors. - 8th ed. / John Carter and Nicolas Barker (2004)
- PDF version for non-commercial use only. [http://web.archive.org/*/http://www.ilab-lila.com/images/abcforbookcollectors.pdf]
- University of Oxford Early Printed Books Project: Libraries Outside the Bodleian
Owen Massey McKnight
<owen.mcknight@jesus.ox.ac.uk>
Jesus College, Turl Street, Oxford OX1 3DW