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Fine Printing
A Selected List of References

Compiled by Evelyn Timberlake, Humanities and Social Sciences Division, in consultation with Peter VanWingen, Rare Book and Special Collections Division.

Blumenthal, Joseph.
The printed book in America. -- Boston : D.R. Godine, c1977. -- xvi, 250 p. : facsims. (some col.)
Z208.B56
Bibliography: p. 233-237.

Cave, Roderick.
The private press. -- 2nd ed. -- New York : R.R. Bowker, 1983. -- xvi, 389 p. : ill.
Z231.5.P7 C37 1983
Bibliography: p. [349]-362.

Fine, Ruth.
The Janus Press, 1955-75: an exhibition at the Robert Hull Fleming Museum at the University of Vermont in Burlington, 1975 / catalogue raisonne. -- Burlington : The Museum, 1975. -- 43 p. : ill.
Z121.L216 Rare Bk. Coll.

Fine, Ruth.
The Janus Press, 1975-80 : an exhibition ... catalogue raisonne. -- Burlington : The Museum, 1982. -- 52 p. : ill.
Z232.J36 F56 1982 Rare Bk. Coll.

Fine, Ruth.
The Janus Press, 1981-1990: catalogue raisonne. -- Burlington : University of Vermont Libraries, 1992. -- 47 p. : ill. (some col.)
In Process. Rare Bk. Coll.

The Gehenna Press : the work of fifty years, 1942-1992 : the catalogue of an exhibition curated by Lisa Unger Baskin, containing an assessment of the work of the Press by Colin
Franklin, a bibliography of the books of the Gehenna Press by Hosea Baskin & notes on the books by the printer, Leonard Baskin. -- Dallas, Tex. : The Bridwell Library, [and others], c1992. -- 238 p. : ill. (some col.)
Z232.G2956 G44 1992

Haas, Irvin.
Bibliography of modern American presses. -- Chicago : Black Cat Press, 1935. -- xi p., 15-95 p., 3 leaves.
Z208.H12

Hart, James David.
Fine printing : the San Francisco tradition. -- Washington : Library of Congress, 1985. -- 56 p. : ill.
Z209.S24 H37 1985

Lerner, Abe.
Assault on the book : a critique of fine printing at private presses in the United States today. -- [North Hills, Pa.] : Bird & Bull Press, 1979. -- [18] p.
Z23l.5.P7 L46

Ransom, Will.
Private presses and their books. -- New York : AMS Press, 1976. -- 493 p.
Z231.5.P7 R34 1976
Reprint of the 1929 ed.

Ritchie, Ward.
Fine printing : the Los Angeles tradition. -- Washington : Library of Congress, 1987. -- viii, 65 p. : ill.
Z209.L6 R57 1987

Shields, Robert R.
Twentieth-century American fine printing / introd. by Peter VanWingen. -- In Quarterly journal of the Library of Congress. -- Vol. 39 (fall 1982) ; p. 224-241.
Z881.U49 A3, v. 39

Updike, Daniel Berkeley.
Notes on the Merrymount Press & its work... -- San Francisco : A. Wofsy Fine Arts, 1975. -- viii, 357 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill.
Z232.M57 U82 1975@@

Victor Hammer, artist and printer. -- Lexington [Ky.] : Anvil Press, 1981. -- 213 p. : ill. (some col.), facsims., ports.
NE539.H33 V5 1981 Rare Bk. Coll.
Prepared under the direction of Carolyn R. Hammer.

Companion volumes: Victor Hammer, Artist and Craftsman /John Rothenstein, 1978; Victor Hammer : An Artist's Testament. 1988.

SERIALS
Bookways. -- No. 1 (Oct. 1991)-$$$$. -- Austin, Tex. : W. Thomas Taylor, Inc., 1991-Z119.B73
A quarterly for the book arts.

Fine print. -- (Jan. 1975)-(summer 1990) -- [San Francisco : S. Kirshenbaum, 1975-1990.]
Z119.F55
Publication suspended. Private press books. -- 1959-$$$$. -- North Harrow : Private Libraries Association, 1959-
Z1028.P73
Annual.

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