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Bibliography & Recommended Reading

Backhouse, Janet. The Illuminated Manuscript. Oxford, England: Phaidon, 1979.

Baker, Herbert L. Cylinder Printing Machines: Being a Study of the Mechanism and Operation of the Principal Types of Cylinder Printing Machines. Chicago, IL: The Committee on Education United Typothetae of America, 1918.

Boas, Marie. The Scientific Renaissance 1450-1630. New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1962.

The British Libraries, British Library Incunabula Short Title Catalogue. 2011.

Britt, George. Forty Years—Forty Millions: The Career of Frank A. Munsey. New York, NY: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935.

Carter, John. ABC for Book-Collectors. England: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966.

Coopersmith, Andrew S. Fighting Words. New York, NY: The New Press, 2004.

Coulmas, Florian. Writing Systems of the World. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell, 1989.

Cremin, Lawrence. American Education: The National Experience, 1783-1876. New York, NY: Harper, 1980.

Crock, Ruth C. "Cultural and Intellectual Life in the Gilded Age." The Gilded Age: Perspective on the Origins of Modern America. Charles Calhoun, ed., Plymouth, United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007, 211-237.

Duffy, Eamon. The Stripping of the Altars. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.

Ekilson, Stephen. Graphic Design: A New History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007.

Febvre, Lucien & Martin, Henri-Jean. The Coming of the Book. London, England: NLB, 1976.

Fischer, Steven. A History of Writing. London, England: Reaktion Books, 2001.

Fry, Joseph A. "Late Nineteenth-Century U.S. Foreign Relations." The Gilded Age: Perspective on the Origins of Modern America. Charles Calhoun, ed. Plymouth, United Kingdom: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), 307-332.

de Hamel, Christopher. Scribes and Illuminators. Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1992.

Hoe, Richard M. U.S. Patent #5199. New York, NY: United States Patent Office, July 24, 1847.

Holstmark, Erling. Tarzan and Tradition: Classical Myth in Popular Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1981.

Hunter, Dard. Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft. New York, NY: A. A. Knopf, 1947.

Kapr, Albert. Johannes Gutenberg: The Man and His Invention. Aldershot, England: Scolar Press, 1996.

Kobre, Sidney. The Yellow Press and Gilded Age Journalism.. Tallahassee, FL: Florida State University, 1964.

Lewis, Roy. Fine Bookbinding in the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Arco, 1984.

Nixon, Howard & Foot, Mirjam. The History of Decorative Bookbinding in England. Oxford, England: Oxford University press, 1992.

Roberts, Colin & T.C. Skeat, The Birth of the Codex. London, England: British Academy, 1983.

Scholderer, Victor. Johann Gutenberg: The Inventor of Printing. London, England: Trustees of the British Museum, 1963.

Sjostrom, Eero. Wood Chemistry: Fundamentals and Applications. New York, NY: Academic Press, 1981.

Spitz, Lewis W. The Protestant Repformation 1517-1559. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1984.

Tebbel, John. The Compact History of the American Newspaper. New York, NY: Hawthorn Books, 1969.

Yeo, Richard. "Encyclopaedic Knowledge". Books and the Sciences in History. Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine, eds. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2000.