GENERAL INFORMATION FOR BIBLIOPHILES
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- Carter, John. ABC FOR BOOK COLLECTORS. 7th Ed. Revised by Nicolas Barker. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1995.
- Ellis, Estelle, Caroline Seebohm and Christopher Simon Sykes (eds.) AT HOME WITH BOOKS: HOW BOOK LOVERS LIVE WITH AND CARE FOR THEIR LIBRARIES. New York: Random House, 1995.
- Franco, Edgar. DICTIONARY OF TERMS & EXPRESSIONS COMMONLY USED IN THE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKTRADE IN FRENCH, ENGLISH, GERMAN AND ITALIAN. s.l.: ILAB, 1994.
- Actual title: Dictionnaire de termes en usage dans le commerce des livres anciens en français, anglais, allemand et italien
- Gaskell, Philip. A NEW INTRODUCTION TO BIBLIOGRAPHY. Winchester (UK) & New Castle, DE: St. Paul's Bibliographies / Oak Knoll Press, 1995.
- Glaister, Geoffrey A. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BOOK. 2nd Edition. Reprint, with a new introduction by Donald Farren. New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 1996.
- Greenfield, Jane. ABC OF BOOKBINDING: A UNIQUE GLOSSARY WITH OVER 700 ILLUSTRATIONS FOR COLLECTORS & CONSERVATORS. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, 1998.
- Greenfield, Jane. THE CARE OF FINE BOOKS. New York: Lyons Books, 1988.
- Stauffer, David McNeely, Mantle Fielding and Thomas Hovey Gage. AMERICAN ENGRAVERS UPON COPPER AND STEEL. (Four volumes in three.) New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 1994. Quoting from the publisher's description of the above consolidated reprint:
"In 1907 David McNeely Stauffer's two-volume set of AMERICAN ENGRAVERS UPON COPPER AND STEEL was published in a limited edition of 350 copies. This pioneer work provided biographical sketches and a checklist of the works of over seven hundred American engravers. Little had previously been written about this subject, as the great majority of early American engravers were relatively obscure men and often the only record of their existence as engravers was the few impressions of a plate accidentally preserved. Stauffer's work was based on the prints themselves - their signatures, dates and publishers - and he realized there were omissions. In 1917 Mantle Fielding, who had corresponded with Stauffer and seen many of his notes, published a supplement in a numbered, limited edition of 220 copies. Stauffer's and Fielding's works on American Engravers are well indexed for engravers and partly indexed for subjects. However, engravers are for the most part only copyists; they reproduce on copper, steel or stone the work of another. Much valuable information as to the identity of the painters of early portraits can be obtained from examining engraved copies. Thus in 1920 Thomas Hovey Gage added an Artist Index to these important volumes. This reprint is the first time these four scarce volumes have appeared together as a set...."