Websites for Bibliophiles

This is a place for FBS members to find interesting book-oriented websites.

Society member and past president Michael Bryan, Director, Seminole Community Library, compiled the extensive list below for our website in 2009 (updated 09/29/15).

Please send additions and corrections to the webmaster

Bibliography

Bibliographical Society (UK)

Bibliographical Society of America:

Bibliographical Society of Canada:

Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia:

Cambridge Bibliographical Society:

Oxford Bibliographical Society

Book Arts • Centers for the Book • History of the Book

Alcuin Society: www.alcuinsociety.com/

The Book: An Introduction: www.cbbag.ca/BookArtsWeb/TheBook.html

Book Arts Web: www.philobiblon.com/

Book History Time-Table: www.xs4all.nl/~knops/timetab.html

Center for the Book Arts: www.centerforbookarts.org/

Fine Press Book Association: fpba.com/

Florida Center for the Book: www.broward.org/LIBRARY/MYLIBRARYONLINE/FCFTB/Pages/Default.aspx

Guild of Book Workers: /www.guildofbookworkers.org/

Library of Congress Center for the Book: www.read.gov/cfb/

Medieval and Renaissance Book Production – digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1010&context=lib_pubs

Rare Book School: www.rarebookschool.org/

Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing: www.sharpweb.org/

Tampa Book Arts Studio: tampabookartsstudio.blogspot.com/

Book Collecting

Book Collecting: www.djmcadam.com/book-collecting.html

The Book Collector (periodical): www.thebookcollector.co.uk/

Books and Book Collecting: www.trussel.com/f_books.htm

Essentials of Book Collecting: www.trussel.com/books/lucas01.htm

Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies: www.fabsocieties.org/

Fine Books & Collections (periodical): www.finebooksmagazine.com/index.phtml

Firsts – The Book Collector’s Magazine (periodical): www.firstsmagazine.com/

Miniature Book Society: www.mbs.org/

Private Libraries Association: www.plabooks.org/

Book Design

Book Design Review: nytimesbooks.blogspot.com/#

Book Fairs and Festivals

BookFestivals.com: bookfestivals.com/

Miami Book Fair International: www.miamibookfair.com/

National Book Festival: www.loc.gov/bookfest/

New York Book Festival: www.newyorkbookfestival.com/

St. Petersburg Times Festival of Reading: www.festivalofreading.com/

Book Trade

Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America: www.abaa.org/

British Book Trade Archives 1830-1939 (UK): catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/004948941

British Book Trade Index: www.bbti.bham.ac.uk/

Florida Antiquarian Booksellers Association: www.floridabooksellers.com/

International League of Antiquarian Booksellers: www.ilab-lila.com/

Rare Book Hub / Americana Exchange: www.rarebookhub.com/ San Francisco, California, Bruce McKinney, founder, proprietor. Some 6 billion records of rare book sales transactions, with trade articles, notices, important offerings & sales, etc.

Scottish Book Trade Index: www.nls.uk/catalogues/scottish-book-trade-index

Bookbinding

About Bookbinding: www.aboutbookbinding.com/index.html

American Academy of Bookbinding: www.ahhaa.org/academy-bookbinding/

American Bookbinders Museum: www.bookbindersmuseum.com/

Bookbinding: A Tutorial: www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/book/index.html

Bookbinding Texts Online: www.lostcrafts.com/

Database of Bookbindings: www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings/

Bookplates

American Society of Bookplate Collectors & Designers: www.bookplate.org/

The Bookplate Society: www.bookplate society.org

Stanford University Libraries Bookplate Exhibit: lib.stanford.edu/bookplates

Lew Jaffe, Bookplate maven & “junkie”:
bookplatejunkie.blogspot.com/2012/03/this-week-in-bookplates-3122012.html

Conservation and Preservation

Conservation & Preservation (Book Arts Web): www.philobiblon.com/pressite.shtml

Library of Congress: Preservation: www.loc.gov/preserv/preserve.html

Epigraphy • Paleography • Calligraphy • Manuscripts

American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy: classics.case.edu/asgle/

Association for the Calligraphic Arts: www.calligraphicarts.org/

Beginners’ Guide to Calligraphy: Create Wedding Invitations and More by Mac Molli:

Calligraphy and Lettering Arts Society: www.clas.co.uk/

Calligraphy Societies of Florida:

Coastal Calligraphers Guild: coastalcalligraphersguild.org/
Gulfcoast Calligraphy Guild: gulfcoastcalligraphyguild.wordpress.com/
Scribes of Central Florida: www.scribesofcentralflorida.com/
South Florida Calligraphy Guild: southfloridacalligraphyguild.org/

Epigraphic Society: www.epigraphy.org/

Fonts for Latin Paleography: guindo.pntic.mec.es/jmag0042/LATIN_PALEOGRAPHY.pdf

Introduction to Greek and Latin Paleography, by Sir Edward Maunde Thompson
(downloadable electronic text): www.archive.org/details/greeklatin00thomuoft

The Manuscript Society: http://www.manuscript.org/

Medieval Writing: History, Heritage and Data Source: www.medievalwriting.50megs.com/

Paleography: Reading Old Handwriting 1500-1800: A Practical Online Tutorial: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/palaeography/

Society of Scribes (New York): www.societyofscribes.org/

Society of Scribes and Illuminators (UK): www.calligraphyonline.org/

U.S. Epigraphy Project: usepigraphy.brown.edu/

Libraries and Librariana

Association of Research Libraries: www.arl.org/

Davies Project at Princeton University: www.princeton.edu/~davpro/

Independent Research Libraries Association: irla.lindahall.org/

Library History Buff: www.libraryhistorybuff.org/

Library History Database (UK): Robert Alston’s database is being transferred to the University of London. Until the transfer is complete, archived versions of the database can be found by consulting: digitalriffs.blogspot.com/2011/08/robin-alstons-library-history-database.html

LibraryThing: www.librarything.com/