Selected Book Arts Links

The following is a list of links related to the book arts. These links are provided as a useful tool for beginning research or simply to learn more about a fascinating area of study and creation. This is not intended to be a comprehensive listing. Links last updated on 9/17/2005.

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|Artists Online | Associations & Organizations | Book Dealers | Bookbinding | Bookplates | Classes & Workshops | Degree Programs | Email Lists | Essays on the Book Arts | Letterpress Printing | Online Exhibits | Papermaking | Private Presses | Reference | Typography | Web Books | Other Cool Miscellaneous Links |

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Artists Online

• Irene Chan / Ch'an Press
• Julie Chen / Flying Fish Press
• Beatrice Coron
• Jonathan Gitelson
• Karen Hanmer
• Susan Hensel
• Charles Hobson
• Roberta Lavadour
• Richard Minsky
• A Humument Home Page (Tom Phillips)
• Norman Sasowsky
• Laurent Sauerwein
• Miriam Schaer
• Peter and Donna Thomas
• Irene Woodbury

Link Compilations

• Bookartist Virtual Gallery( University of Idaho)
• Book Arts Gallery ( Peter Verheyen)
• Colophon Page Gallery

To see exhibits in person consult Judith Hoffberg's calendar of events.

Artists' Books - Presses and Publications

• Art Life
• Booklyn
• Bookworks
• Fiji Island Mermaid Press
• I.S.C.A Quarterly
• never mind the press
• Nexus Press
• Popular Kinetics Press
• Webproductions
• Women's Studio Workshop

Associations and Organizations

• Fine Press Book Association
• Local Printing Groups
• American Amateur Press Association
• American Printing History Association (APHA)
• Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA)
• Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild (CBBAG)
• Guild of Bookworkers
• Miniature Book Society
• Movable Book Society
• Museum of Printing
• The Typophiles
• The Alcuin Society
• American Print Alliance
• Society of Bookbinders

Book Dealers specializing in Book Arts

• Colophon Page: Artists' Books Dealers
• Vamp & Tramp (formerly Califia Books)
• Granary Books
• Oak Knoll Books
• Wilsey Rare Books
• List of dealers on bookarts.com
• Printed Matter, Inc.

Book Binding, Illustration, and Illumination

• Jones on Bookbinding
• Chinese bookbinding contained in the Dunhuang collection of the British Library

Bookplates

• Bookplate Society
• Cyber Journal of Heraldic Bookplates
• Historical overview of exlibris

Classes & Workshops

• Paper and Book Intensive
• Center for Book Arts(New York City)
• Pyramid Atlantic (Maryland)
• Rare Book School
• San Francisco Center for the Book
• Visual Studies Workshop
• Women's Studio Workshop
• American Academy of Bookbinding

Degree Programs

• University of Alabama MFA in the Book Arts ProgramUniversity of Idaho
• The University of Iowa Center for the Book
• Visual Studies Workshop
• Mills College
• University of the Arts
• Columbia College
• Oregon College of Art and Craft

Email Lists

• Book_Arts- L: The Electronic Meeting Place for all Facets of the Book Arts
• Letpress: The Letterpress Discussion Group
• TYPO-L: Discussion of Typography, Type and Typographic Design
• Altered Books Discussion
• Papermaking

Essays on the Book Arts

• The Book Arts: An Introduction, by CBBAG
• The Print and the Book, by Saul Blumenthal
• The Virtual Codex from Page Space to E-space, lecture by Johanna Drucker

Letterpress Printing

• Briar Press: The Online Letterpress Resource
• Resources for Letterpress Printers
• Letpress FAQ
• Typecase layouts from the Alembic Press holdings
• California typecase layout from Kat Ran Press (pdf file)
• Letterpress Printing (Columbia College, Chicago)
• Introduction to Letterpress Printing (Five Roses Press)

Online Exhibits

• Tiny Tomes: The Charlotte M. Smith Collection of Miniature Books
• Books Go to War: Armed Service Editions in World War IIBienes Center
• The Pop-Up world of Ann Monatanaro Pop Ups
• Graphic novel, Vertigo ( Lynd Ward)
• Evolution of the Medieval Book (Cornell University)
• Online Broadsides: Imagine Nature
• Cleveland Public Library's Collection of Mail Art
• Book Arts in the USA (Center for Book Arts NYC)
• Women in the Book Arts (Wellesly College)
• Paper, Art & the Book (The Center for Book Arts NYC)
• Coptic and Collage (Center for the Book Arts NYC)
  

Papermaking

• American Museum of Papermaking
• The Friends of Dard Hunter
• Papermaking by Elizabeth Nevin
• The Prairie Paper Project
• Twinrocker Handmade Paper On-Line
• Dieu Donne Papermill
• Hand Papermaking Magazine
• Making paper at home (Mission Creek Press)

Private & Small Presses

• The Alembic Press
• Barbarian Press
• Bird Press
• Convivio Bookworks
• Foolscap Press
• Indian Hill Press
• Kat Ran Press
• Kennedy and Sons, Fine Printers
• Midnight Paper Sales
• Private Presses of the UK
• Purgatory Pie Press
• Quercus Press

Reference and Web Link Collections

• Book Arts Web (Peter Verheyen)
• Book Arts.com
• Colophon page
• Other Sites of Book Arts interest (Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild)
• Book Information Website (Cor Knops)
• Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary ...
• Cary Collection (Rochester Institute of Technology)
• MOMA artist book collection
• Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry
• Book block(University of Idaho)
• Emergence of American Advertising, Duke University
• History of Graphic Design, Ken Botnick
• The Print - A Renaissance Invention, from the Met Museum
• What is a Print?, from the MOMA
• Database of bindings in the British Library
• Book Arts Links (Janet Maher)
• Digital Books about Books (Oak Knoll Books)
• Bibliography and History of the Book (Jack Lynch, Rutgers University)
• Bibliography (Karen Drayne, Barbara Davison, Emily-Jane Dawson)

Typography

• Adobe Type Browser
• Serif: The Magazine of Type & Typography
• The Goudy International Center for Font Technology and Aesthetics<
• Microsoft Typography
• Linotype Library
• Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum
• Typofile Magazine
• Typography Papers
• ABC Typography Virtual Museum
• Indentifont, type identifier

Web Books

Here are some examples that use the web as their medium of expression. Are they still books?

• The Plagiarist Codex by Armendant Hardiker
• 404
• Do you want...? by Claude Closky
• The 12hr-ISBN-JPEG Project by Brad Brace
• The Roar of Destiny by Judy Malloy

Check out these links for more discussion on this and related topics

• Bibliography on the future of the book
• Links about the future of the book (Sue Wood)

Other Cool Miscellaneous Links

• Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
• Documentary on the burning of Sarajevo's Vijecnica library in 1992
• Prelinger Archive acquired by the Library of Congress
• Electronic Museum of Mail Art (Timeline of Art History, from the Met Museum