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The Special Collections has many book arts resources that are available to students in the book arts class.
BOOK ARTS COLLECTION
This collection contains books, periodicals and other materials in three different subject areas:
The history of printing
This includes books and periodicals that relate to the history and development of printing from its earliest beginnings to the present.
Book arts technique
Materials on all aspects of the book arts including fine printing, bookbinding, papermaking, paper decoration (marbling, paste papers), typography, design, publishing, editing, calligraphy, typefounding, illustration, printmaking, and other related areas.
Fine Printing
Fine printing from presses in the United States and Europe. The purpose of this collection is to provide students and researchers with examples of late-nineteenth and twentieth century fine printing. The collection features both tradition and innovative work and can be used by book arts students to gain ideas for their own work. Some presses are represented comprehensively, while others have only specific examples.
Along with books and periodicals there are also broadsides and collections of job work and ephemera from certain presses.
USING THE BOOK ARTS COLLECTION
All of the books in the Book Arts Collection can be found in the Library Catalog. All of the books which are physically housed in the main part of the collection, which is in the glass cases in the Special Collections Department's reading room have a [ba] in brackets in the location area before the call number. Some books dealing with book arts subjects are still in the Special Collections main stacks. They will not have a [ba] designation.
Students in the book arts class may have direct access to the materials in the main book arts collection by asking for the key at the Special Collections reference desk. The door can be unlocked and student may browse through the collection. Be careful opening the doors, they can be difficult!
Each time the collection is used the user should sign in on the Special Collections Research Register and fill out a call slip indicating they are using the Book Arts Collection.
Do not reshelve the books, leave them on the table when you are done. Write the number of books you used on the call slip and give it to the person on the desk.
If you are requesting books from the main stacks you will have to fill out a call slip for each title. This also includes periodicals.
Other book arts information in the Library Catalog
All of the examples of fine printing in the Book Arts Collection are given specialized subject headings relating to the book arts. These include:
Individuals or corporate entities involved in the production of the book:
Printer, binder, designer, paper type, typeface, calligrapher, publisher, illustrator,
type designer, wood-engraver, etc.
Subjects about the production of the book:
Typeface, binding, paper, decorated paper, etc.
Example:
Subject: Black Rock Press. Yields books printed and/or published by
the Black Rock Press.
Subject: Robert E. Blesse. Yields books designed and/or printed by Bob
Blesse.
Subject: Centaur. Yields books printed using this typeface.
Subject: Rives. Yields books printed on this paper.
Subject: Non-adhesive bindings. Yields books with non-adhesive bindings.
(Also books about non-adhesive binding).