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• Accent on Images

  http://voxlibris.claremont.edu/sc/exhibits/accent/Lo_AccentonImages.htm
  Online exhibition showcasing illustrated books in modern foreign languages from the fifteenth through the twentieth centuries selected from the collections of the Libraries of The Claremont Colleges.

• Artists Books

  http://www.aragopress.arago.co.uk/
  Background material to the development of book printing, type and the printing press. There are sections on both the fine printing of the private press movement and experimentation of book art.

• Bay Area Book Arts

  http://sfbookarts.com/
  Provides resources for San Francisco area book artists, including a calendar, list of organizations, and directory of local stores and classes.

• Binding Time and Space

  http://loki.stockton.edu/~kinsellt/litresources/binding/latin13/intro.html
  Examining a Renaissance Italian Manuscript in the Computer Age.

• Book Art Museum

  http://www.book.art.pl/
  Publisher of rare and artistic books, collection of old printing machines and equipment, paper mill, typefoundery, exhibitions, educational programs. In English and Polish.

• Book Arts Jam

  http://www.bookartsjam.org/
  The yearly Book Arts Jam features the work of more than 50 book artists, zine publishers, letterpress printers, fine binders and printmakers. The Jam takes place every fall on the campus of Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, CA.

• Book Arts Web

  http://www.philobiblon.com/
  Reference site for all the book arts with tutorials, links, publications, galleries. Home page of the Book_Arts-L listserv.

• Book Sequence Gallery

  http://www.sramek.ca/
  Contains photo-based bookworks and photographs by Canadian artist Peter Sramek, as well as his students and other artists.

• Bookbinding and Royal Bindings

  http://periodfinebindings.typepad.com/
  Paul Tronson, A master bookbinder, restores antiquarian books, bibles and objects to period using original tools and techniques.

• Books By Hand

  http://www.booksbyhand.co.uk/
  Handcrafted wooden-bound books and albums, some inset with an ammonite or Whitby jet.

• Boxcar Press

  https://www.boxcarpress.com/
  Boxcar Press publishes letterpress printed books and broadsides. Offers printing and photopolymer services to meet the needs of artists, designers, and others who love fine printing.

• Briar Press

  http://www.briarpress.org/
  A searchable site includes an online letterpress museum and glossary, free downloadable eps images, and a directory of resources.

• Bridal Bookquet

  http://bayimages.net/bridal-bookquet/
  Features the flower-shaped books the Bay Area Book Artists (BABA) made for a bridal wedding bookquet.

• CaiLun Info

  http://www.cailun.info/
  Paper and book making resources, news, supplies, information, tools, techniques, and artists.

• Colophon Page

  http://www.colophon.com/
  Internet community of collectors, dealers, creators and lovers of the fine publishing arts.

• Confessions Of A Bookplate Junkie

  http://bookplatejunkie.blogspot.com/
  A weblog by Lew Jaffe about collecting bookplates. Their design, history, and information about bookplates.

• Denis Gouey Bookbinding Studio

  http://www.bookbinding.com/
  Bookbinding design and restoration of books as well as preservation and presentation of important documents.

• Dreaming Mind Handmade Books

  http://www.dreamingmind.com/
  Don Drake of Dreaming Mind creates unique handmade journals, albums, guest books, and appointment books. Creator of the True Step binding system.

• Ellen and Reed's Handcrafted Books

  http://www.openaccess.org/~rebooks/
  Handcrafted notebooks, journals, and photographs. Hardcover books plus books with leather and wooden covers. Located in Bellingham, Washington.

• Ergo Pers

  http://www.artistsbooks.be/
  Publisher of books and editions of French and English poetry.

• Foolscap Press - Bindery and Publishers

  http://www.foolscappress.com/
  A small letterpress printing, hand binding and publishing company. Publish limited edition handmade books and do custom printing, binding and portfolio case construction.

• Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison

  http://www.gracialouise.com/
  This site offers artists' books created by two contemporary visual artists based in Melbourne, Australia.

• Havilah Press

  http://www.havilahpress.com/
  Site highlighting the work, activities, and projects of a private press in the San Francisco Bay Area which focuses on letterpress printing with handpresses, unique editions, and hand bookbinding.

• HFGroup - Acme Bookbinding

  http://acmebinding.com/
  Family owned full service bindery business based in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Sells bindery, digital, and custom bindery services.

• If'n Books and Marks

  http://www.ifnbooks.com/
  Handmade by Debora Dormody at a small bindery in Rhode Island.

• Incline Press

  http://www.inclinepress.com/
  A small, private press that prints limited-edition books by letterpress using a platen press and binds them by hand. Their books are usually illustrated, either with wood engravings or cuts, linocuts or line blocks, and are often hand-coloured with stencils

• Karen Hanmer

  http://www.karenhanmer.com/
  A gallery of installation, rebound, and altered books using a variety of materials and binding techniques.

• Lark Sparrow Press

  http://www.larksparrowpress.com/
  Lark Sparrow is a private press dedicated to contemporary works of fiction and poetry.

• Lost Crafts: The Printed Book

  http://www.lostcrafts.com/Printed-Book/Book-Main.html
  Contents of The Printed Book by Harry G. Aldis Cambridge at the University Press printed in 1916.

• Making Books with Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord

  http://www.makingbooks.com/
  Tips and projects for teachers, parents, and children.

• Paper Birds

  http://www.paperbirds.com/
  Handmade books and boxes made by book artist Joanne Kluba.

• Personal Visions: Artists' Books at the Millennium: An Exhibitiion

  http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/exhibits/artistsbook/index.htm
  An exhibition of artists' books from the collection of the University of Delaware's Special Collections Department. The web exhibit mirrors an actual exhibition on view from January 15 until June 9, 2002.

• Priscilla Foster Handmade Books

  http://priscillafoster.com/
  Priscilla Foster handmade books handcrafts fine custom scrapbooks, photo albums, wedding albums, baby books, writing journals and other custom albums.

• Susan Angebranndt Books

  http://www.greenchairpress.com/
  Gallery of handbound artist and illustrated books.

• Sutton Hoo Press

  http://suttonhoopress.com/
  A literary fine art press, publishes contemporary literature, poetry and fiction in hand bound, letterpress limited editions.

• The Collector's Guide

  http://www.collectorsguide.com/fa/fa010.shtml
  Conserving works in paper.

• The St. John's Bible

  http://www.saintjohnsbible.org/
  Being created by scribes in a scriptorium in Wales, the St. John's Bible will be the first handwritten, illuminated Bible in the modern era.

• Ukulele Books

  http://www.baymoon.com/~ukulelebooks/
  Features a series of artist books made out of ukuleles by Peter and Donna Thomas.

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