Related Sites & Publications

• 25 Years The Book Art Movement 1974-1999: Paper presented by Richard Minsky at the 2001 SHARP conference.
• Alciato's Book of Emblems: a collection of 212 Latin emblem poems, each consisting of a motto (a proverb or other short enigmatic expression), a picture, and an epigrammatic text. Alciato's book was first published in 1531, with this text being from the 1621 edition.
• Alternative Arts Publishing: Artists' Books (1960-1980) by Stephen Perkins.
• American Bookbinders Museum: The only museum in the world dedicated entirely to the history of bookbinding. Visit in person in San Francisco or online.
• An Interview with Mr. Richard Minsky: Professional & Academic Perspectives of Book Art. At Artschools.com.
• Arbeitskreis für die Erfassung und Erschließung Historischer Bucheinbände (AEB) / Association for the Recording and Reconstruction of Historical Bookbindings: In German.
• Archiv künstlerischer Bücher: Artist's book collection and information site with link to many German language sites and resources. In German.
• Art and Craft Shows.Net: Search Sunshine Artist magazine's database of over 2,000 art and crafts events available for searching on the Internet. Search for an art/crafts show, festival or fair by dates, city, state, or region.
• Art et Métiers du Livre: French language journal for fine binding and the book arts.
• Artist Book News: A central marketplace for buyers and sellers of the book arts online. A high quality printed Newsletter is published Spring and Fall, promoting book artists to buyers worldwide.
• Artists' Books Information at Yale: Organized by Jae Jennifer Rossman at the Yale University Arts of the Book Collection..
• Bindereport: Monthly magazin reporting on developments, products, and news, in the fields of hand and commercial binding. In German.
• The Book, an Introduction: an overview of the history of the book and the book as art from the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild website.
• Book Arts Newsletter: Published monthly by Sara Bodman of the Centre for Fine Print Research at the University of the West of England, Bristol, UK.
• Book History Online: A project of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands, BHO is a database in English on the history of the printed book and libraries. It contains titles of books and articles on the history of the printed book worldwide. It is based on ABHB, the Annual Bibliography of the History of the printed Book and Libraries. This annual book publication (published under the auspices of the Committee on Rare Books and Manuscripts of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) is produced in collaboration with editors in more than 30 countries.
• Booktown: of a project between five European book towns. The Site is developmental and during the project period different services will be tried out. The EU-project BookTownNet aims at making Book Towns more readily accessible to the public, and to create a network between the towns.
• Dog Eared Magazine: A journal of book arts.
• Cover Art: Whether Private Manuscripts or Rare Books, Custom Bookbinding Gives Them a Great Look: From Cigar Aficionado, Spring 1996.
• Dauvet Batteur d'Or: Gold beaters in France.
• John DePol, Wood Engraver: One of America's most noted wood engravers.
• Designing a Binding for a Book Not Yet Written, by Kitty Maryatt: This article first appeared in Abracadabra, the Journal for the Alliance for Contemporary Book Arts, Special Bookbinding Issue, Number Seven, Spring 1993
• Dragonhome's Rubber Stamping Pages: Your window on the rubber stamp world!
• Dragonsblood (A project to demonstrate and develop the techniques of the Medieval scribe, artist and illumination - WOID (A journal of visual language): By Paul Werner.
• English Embroidered Bookbindings: By Cyril Davenport, published 1899. From the Internet Archive.
• The Essentials of Book Collecting
• The European Library: The information service for the National Libraries of Europe. Features online exhibit Treasures from Europe's National Libraries.
• Exlibris: International bookplate collectors association.
• Exwebis: Exlibris for the web.
• From the Traditional to the Transformative: Two Approaches to Visual Books, an article "compiled" by Mary Stewart in which Nancy Callahan and Peter Verheyen discuss the book arts. The article was published in Volume 4, Issue 1, Summer/Fall 1996 of the Journal for the Mid America Print Council
• Graphic Artists Guild: Artists union (now part of UAW) which also publishes Pricing and Ethical Guidelines.
• Hidden in Plain Sight: A brief History of Fore-edge painting: From the Gill Fore-edge Painting Collection at Marist College.
• Journal of Artists' Books (JAB): Published by Brad Freeman, founded in 1994, the only publication devoted exclusively to criticism in the field of artists' books. Contains artists' pages, interviews, critical and historical articles, and reviews of books.
• Literatur Welt: Links to literary resources. In German.
• Lulu: Self-publishing and POD made easy.
• Mail Art: From Yahoo's collection of index pages.
• Margaret Armstrong, American Book Designer: Margaret Armstrong was one of the first professional book designers in the United States, with her work as an artist and writer spanning the years between 1890 and 1940.
• Papierlexikon: German - English and English - German dictionar for printing and binding terminology.
• PRINT Online: The digital companion to PRINT, America's Graphic Design Magazine. Updated regularly, it features the latest from the world of graphic design.
• La Reliure: Meta-site with numerous European book arts resources.
• Resources for the history of books and printing. From Daniel Traister's page.
• Second Editions: Art furniture from "This into That." Furniture is made from books by Jim Rosenau. Great fun!
• The Book Collector: "The pre-eminent journal in its field deals with all aspects of books, ancient and modern;
  with libraries, the book trade and book collecting.
• Tom Phillips Website: Learn about the work of this noted artist and bookmaker.
• Turning the Pages: Treasures from the British Library.
• Umbrella: A journal for the book arts edited by Judith Hoffberg.
• Wise Owl Books: "We Make Self-Publishing Easier."
• Xlibris: Provides publishing and community services for authors. Xlibris provides authors with direct, personal and nearly immediate access to publication in hardback, trade paperback and electronic formats, while enabling authors to keep their rights to their work. You upload files to them, and they'll publish/print on demand.