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• Arts: Visual Arts: Multiple Media Artists  (937)
• Business: Publishing and Printing: Binding and Finishing: Bookbinding  (67)
• Reference: Museums: Museum Resources: Conservation and Preservation: Consultants  (34)
• Shopping: Crafts: Supplies: Paper: Book Arts  (7)

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• Book Arts Web   - Reference site for all the book arts with tutorials, links, publications, galleries. Home page of the Book_Arts-L listserv.

• About Bookbinding - Contains the entire contents of The Art of Bookbinding, published in London in 1897 and The Care of Books published in 1902.
• Accent on Images - 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.
• Acme Bookbinding - Family owned full service bindery business based in Charlestown, Massachusetts. Sells bindery, digital, and custom bindery services.
• Artists Books - 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 - 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 - Examining a Renaissance Italian Manuscript in the Computer Age.
• Book Art Museum - Publisher of rare and artistic books, collection of old printing machines and equipment, paper mill, typefoundery, exhibitions, educational programs. In English and Polish.
• Book Art Passions - Original artist books with image gallery.
• Book Arts Jam - 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 Sequence Gallery - Contains photo-based bookworks and photographs by Canadian artist Peter Sramek, as well as his students and other artists.
• Bookbinding and Royal Bindings - Paul Tronson, A master bookbinder, restores antiquarian books, bibles and objects to period using original tools and techniques.
• Booklyn Artists Alliance - Artist-run organisation organises exhibitions,publications and a touring "Bookmobile". Offers consultancy on developing collections of artists' books to institutions.Links to members and collecting institutions.
• Bookmobile Project - Annual touring exhibition of artist books, zines, and independent publications traveling by way of a vintage Airstream. Tour dates, gallery, and how to submit a piece.
• Books By Hand - Handcrafted wooden-bound books and albums, some inset with an ammonite or Whitby jet.
• Boxcar Press - 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.
• Boxwood Bindery - Offers handbound leather books.
• Briar Press - A searchable site includes an online letterpress museum and glossary, free downloadable eps images, and a directory of resources.
• Bridal Bookquet - Features the flower-shaped books the Bay Area Book Artists (BABA) made for a bridal wedding bookquet.
• CaiLun Info - Paper and book making resources, news, supplies, information, tools, techniques, and artists.
• Center for the Book Arts, New York City. - Founded in 1974 by book artist Richard Minsky, the Center for the Book Arts is a nonprofit organization “dedicated to preserving the traditional crafts of bookmaking, as well as exploring and encouraging contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object.” The Web site offers information about the organization’s artist-in-residence program and chapbook competition, as well as center news and events, membership information, exhibition archives and publications, listings of over 100 workshop opportunities, and additional book arts links.
• The Collector's Guide - Conserving works in paper.
• Colophon Page - Internet community of collectors, dealers, creators and lovers of the fine publishing arts.
• Confessions Of A Bookplate Junkie - A weblog by Lew Jaffe about collecting bookplates. Their design, history, and information about bookplates.
• Conservation OnLine - Conservation OnLine (CoOL), a project of the Preservation Department of Stanford University Libraries, cover a wide spectrum of topics of interest to professionals involved with the conservation of library, archives and museum materials.
• David Esslemont - Artist, designer, printer and bookbinder who publishes fine books and prints in limited editions. Commissions accepted.
• Denis Gouey Bookbinding Studio - Bookbinding design and restoration of books as well as preservation and presentation of important documents.
• Dog Eared Magazine: A Journal of Book Arts. - This magazine’s site provides a helpful online resource guide of further information and Web links for each published issue. Although the full text of articles is not available online, the site does feature listings of article topics, tables of contents for issues, and back issue and subscription information.
• Don Glaister : The Brooklyn Bridge : A Love Song - The Brooklyn Bridge: A Love Song is a painted book by Don Glaister.
• Dreaming Mind Handmade Books - 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 - Handcrafted notebooks, journals, and photographs. Hardcover books plus books with leather and wooden covers. Located in Bellingham, Washington.
• Ergo Pers - Publisher of books and editions of French and English poetry.
• Eric Alstrom | BookWorks - Gallery of fine bindings and artists books. Also workshop descriptions, sample workshop instructions. contact info and links. By Eric Alstrom.
• Foolscap Press - Bindery and Publishers - Foolscap Press is a small letterpress printing, hand binding and publishing company. We publish limited edition hand made books and do custom printing, binding and portfolio case construction.
• GalleriaMia Book Arts - Design bookbindings and artist's books by Mia Leijonstedt. Finely bound books for book collectors. Book arts courses and workshops.
• Gracia Haby and Louise Jennison - This site offers artists' books created by two contemporary visual artists based in Melbourne, Australia.
• Gracie Sparkles Books - A gallery and shop featuring hand-bound books and other items created by gracie sparkles, a journalism student, bookbinder and printmaker from Ohio.
• Handmade Books by Joe Herring Jr. - Handmade books and blank books, bound by hand in three styles (Japanese Binding).
• Havilah Press - 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.
• If'n Books and Marks - Handmade by Debora Dormody at a small bindery in Rhode Island.
• Incline Press - 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 - A gallery of installation, rebound, and altered books using a variety of materials and binding techniques.
• Lark Sparrow Press - Lark Sparrow is a private press dedicated to contemporary works of fiction and poetry.
• The Little Farm Press - Miniature books, travel books, etchings, botanical books, illustrated books, copper plate printing, gocco, linocut, watercolors, art. Also has a selection of book arts links.
• Lost Crafts: The Printed Book - Contents of The Printed Book by Harry G. Aldis Cambridge at the University Press printed in 1916.
• Maher Bindery - Specializes in the restoration and repair of books. Also offers bookbinding, box making and blank books and journals.
• Making Books with Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord - Tips and projects for teachers, parents, and children.
• Mark Hiner's Pop-Up Books - Paper engineer, Mark Hiner, shows examples of his pop-ups and interactive books. Includes a short history of pop-ups and how to make pop-up books.
• Meadow Press - Limited edition printed letterpress from metal types on mouldmade and handmade papers with emphasis on hand techniques, high standards in craft, and harmony of design and text.
• Mission Creek Press - Artist's books and custom commercial work created by Roberta Lavadour under the Mission Creek Press imprint. Located in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon.
• Mosher Press - Website devoted to the history of what is described as "the first significant private press in America." Includes a biography of its founder, information on notable exhibitions and collections of Mosher Press editions, and other information valueable to collectors of rare books.
• Nicole Andersen Book Arts - The Nicole Andersen Book Arts site is designed to show clients and prospective clients examples of the custom, hand bound albums, portfolios, and boxes we create in our studio.
• One Heart Press - Fine letterpress printers serving the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. We print stationery, invitations and artists' books.
• Page Two, Inc - Resources and inspiration for artists and other specialists working in the fields of papermaking, printmaking, book design, letterpress, traditional/contemporary bookbinding, artists' books, and related endeavors.
• Paper Birds, Handmade Books by Joanne Kluba - Handmade books and boxes made by book artist Joanne Kluba. Products include handmade wedding albums, artist's and photographer's portfolios, custom presentation boxes, limited edition books, custom photo albums, memory boxes, all occasion hand-lettered calligraphy, handcrafted memory albums, Lewis and Clark journals, keepsake boxes, and personalized journals.
• Peng Peng Wang's Art Conservation/Art Gallery - Art Conservation/Restoration for paintings, paper, books, and photographs in San Francisco Bay area. Artist's books and fabric art created by Peng Peng Wang.
• Personal Visions: Artists' Books at the Millennium: An Exhibitiion - 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 - Priscilla Foster handmade books handcrafts fine custom scrapbooks, photo albums, wedding albums, baby books, writing journals and other custom albums.
• Springtide Press - A portfolio of artist's books and fine printing by Jessica Spring including graphic design, letterpress printing and bookbinding.
• The St. John's Bible - 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.
• Susan Angebranndt Books - Gallery of handbound artist and illustrated books.
• Sutton Hoo Press - A literary fine art press, publishes contemporary literature, poetry and fiction in hand bound, letterpress limited editions.
• Ukulele Books - Ukulele Books features a series of 25 artist books made out of ukuleles by Peter and Donna Thomas