Internet resources for bibliography
Selected websites are listed below. For a more comprehensive list, see Directory of Web Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloguer.
General resources
Bindings and Decorated Papers
Includes guide and database of bookbindings in the British Library's early printed collections
Book History Chronology
Book information website
British Book Trade Index
Index of the names and brief biographical and trade details of people who worked in
the book trade in England and Wales, and who were trading by 1851. There is a separate
Scottish Book Trade Index.
Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Books, 2nd ed.
Library of Congress, 1991
English Calendar
Ian MacInnes, Albion College
Old and new style dates, regnal years, days of the week
Signature-Pagination
Table (for a 23-Letter Alphabet)
Yale University Library, Rare Book Team
Dictionaries, glossaries
Bookbinding and the conservation of books: a dictionary of descriptive terminology
Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington
Antiquarisch Woordenboek in vier talen = Antiquarian Dictionary in four languages (Dutch, English, French, German)
Compiled by Jelle Samshuijzen for antiquarian booksellers
Typesetting and Publishing Glossary
Henry Budgett
Glossary of Printing and Typography
Melbourne Museum of Printing
Glossary of Common Latin Terms Found in Imprints of Early Printed Books
Robert L. Maxwell
Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms
Michelle P. Brown (London, 1994)
Revised online version, available via The British Library's website
Latin place-names
Latin place names
found in the imprints of books printed before 1801 and their
vernacular equivalents in AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules) form
Association of College and Research Libraries, Rare Books and
Manuscripts Section, Bibliographic Standards Committee
The main sources are R.A. Peddie, Place names in imprints: an index to the Latin and other forms
used on title pages (1968) [cited as: Peddie], and J.G.T. Graesse, F.
Benedict, and H. Plechl, Orbis Latinus: Lexikon lateinischer geographischer
Namen des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit (1972) [cited as: Graesse]
Names of printing towns
Cathedral Libraries Catalogue
English or other vernacular forms for the Latin names of printing towns as found in early printed books. There are
also some references for early spellings of vernacular forms of names.
Modern equivalents of Latin place-names in early printed books
Catholic History website
ORBIS LATINUS online
Dr. J. G. Th. Graesse (1909)