Checklist of APHA Member Publications

This data table, currently with 112 entries, aims to list notable English language books on printing history topics written or edited by APHA members as well as by APHA Award Laureates^A, Lieberman Lecturers^L, and Mark Samuels Lasner Fellows^F. It is intended to be representative and not comprehensive. (At present, only one title per author is listed.) It does not include journal articles or websites. Links to publishers, booksellers and reviews are not provided. However, reviews in Printing History are noted. Please suggest corrections and titles via the contact page.

Author	Title	Publisher	Year	Reviewed
Allen, Sue^{A, L}	American Book Covers, 1830–1900	Library of Congress	1998	OS 33
Allen, Susan M.	American Antiquarian Society Manuscript Collections: Thomas, Isaiah, Papers, 1748–1874	American Antiquarian Society	1988
Amory, Hugh^A and David D. Hall, eds.	History of the Book in America, A. Volume I: The Colonial Book in the Atlantic World	American Antiquarian Society/Cambridge	2000
Annenberg, Maurice^A	Type Foundries of America and their Catalogs	Oak Knoll	1994
Ashton, Susanna^F	Collaborators in Literary America, 1870–1920	Palgrave Macmillan Ltd.	2003
Auji, Hala	Printing Arab Modernity: Book Culture and the American Press in Nineteenth-Century Beirut	Brill	2016
Badaracco, Claire	American Culture and the Marketplace: R.R. Donnelley's Four American Books Campaign, 1926–1930	Library of Congress	1992
Bain, Peter and Paul Shaw	Blackletter: Type and National Identity	Princeton Architectural Press_	1998
Baker, Cathleen A.	By His Own Labor: The Biography of Dard Hunter	Oak Knoll	2002
Baldasso, Renzo and Christopher Baker	Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600–1720: a Biographical Dictionary	Westport	2002
Barker, Nicolas	Oxford University Press and the Spread of Learning, 1478–1978 : an Illustrated History, The	Oxford	1978
Baskin, Lisa Unger^A et al.	Gehenna Press: the Work of Fifty Years, 1942–1992, The	Gehenna Press	1992
Beckwith, Alice H.R.H.	Illustrating the Good Life: The Pissarros' Eragny Press, 1894–1914. A Catalogue of an Exhibition of Books, Prints and Drawings Related to the Work of the Press	Grolier Club	2007	NS 3
Belanger, Terry^A	Lunacy and the Arrangement of Books	Oak Knoll	2003
Berger, Sidney E.	Rare Books and Special Collections	ALA Neal Schuman	2015
Bidwell, John^L	American Paper Mills, 1690–1830	Dartmouth Publishing Group	2012	NS 19
Blumenthal, Joseph^A	Printed Book in America, The	David R. Godine	1977	OS 1
Bright, Betty	No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America	Granary Books	2005	NS 2
Bringhurst, Robert^{A, L}	Elements of Typographic Style, The	Hartley & Marks	2016
Brody, Catherine Tyler and John DePol	Checklist: Stone House Press Books & Ephemera, 1978–1988	Stone House Press	1989
Brokaw, Cynthia^A et al.	Printing and Book Culture in Late Imperial China	University of California	2006
Bromer, Anne C.	Strings Attached: Dorothy Abbe, Her Work and WAD		2001
Brooker, Robert Elton III:	Albert Kner: Artist, Icon, Legend	Corvina Books and the Club of Odd Volumes	2023
Casper Scott E., Jeffrey D. Groves, Stephen W. Nissenbaum, and Michael Winship^A, eds.	History of the Book in America, A. Volume 3: The Industrial Book, 1840–1880	American Antiquarian Society / North Carolina	2007	NS 5
Cave, Roderick	Private Press, The	R.R. Bowker	1983
Cloud, Gerald W.	John Rodker's Ovid Press: A Bibliographical History	Oak Knoll	2010
Collins, Nancy Sharon	The Complete Engraver	Princeton Architectural Press	2012
Cronenwett, Philip N.	Spiral Press, 1926–1971. A Bibliographical Checklist, The	APHA	2002
Darnton, Robert^A	Literary Underground of the Old Regime, The	Harvard	1982	OS 10
Dreyfus, John^A	Into Print: Selected Writings on Printing History, Typography and Book Production	David R. Godine	1995	OS 35
Drucker, Johanna^{A, L}	Century of Artists' Books, The	Granary Books	1995
Eckman, James^A	Heritage of the Printer Vol. 1, The	Philadelphia North American Publishing	1965
Farren, Donald and August A. Imholtz Jr., eds.	Baltimore Bibliophiles at Fifty, 1954–2004, The. With Children's Books in Bygone Baltimore: An Essay and a Catalogue, by Linda F. Lapides	The Baltimore Bibliophiles	2009	NS 6
Felcone, Joseph J.	Printing in New Jersey, 1754–1800: A Descriptive Bibliography	American Antiquarian Society	2012
Garvey, Eleanor and Philip Hofer	Artist & the Book 1860–1960: in Western Europe and the United States, The	Hacker Art	1982
Gehl, Paul F.^A	Inland Printers: the Fine Press Movement in Chicago, 1920–45	Caxton Club of Chicago	2003
Genz, Marcella	History of the Eragny Press: 1894–1914, A	Oak Knoll	2004
Gilreath, James	Judgment of Experts: Essays and Documents about the Investigation of the Forging of the Oath of a Freeman, The	American Antiquarian Society	1991
Glick, William J.	William Edwin Rudge	The Typophiles	1984	OS 18
Green, James N. and Peter Stallybrass	Benjamin Franklin, Printer and Writer	Oak Knoll/The British Library	2006	NS 1
Griffin, Clive	Journeymen-printers, Heresy, and the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Spain	Oxford	2005
Harris, Elizabeth M.^A	Personal Impressions: the Small Printing Press in Nineteenth-Century America	David R. Godine	2004
Hart, Horace	A Bibliography of the History of Printing in the Library of Congress		1987
Hidy, Lance^F and Stephen Harvard	Stinehour: the Stinehour Press, Lunenburg, Vermont: Design, Copyediting, Monotype and Computer Typesetting, Pasteup, Mechanicals, Letterpress Printing, and Complete Edition Bookbinding	Stinehour Press	1983
Hopkins, Richard L.	Tolbert Lanston and the Monotype: The Origin of Digital Typesetting	University of Tampa	2013	NS 19
Howard-Hill, T.H.	British Book Trade, 1475–1890: A Bibliography, The	British Library / Oak Knoll	2009	NS 6
Hutner, Martin	Making of the Book of Common Prayer of 1928, The	Chiswick Book Shop	1990	OS 26-27
Jackson, Gregory Walters	Auction of the Century Clinton, MI: Square Text Press	Phillip Driscoll	1994
Janssen, Frans A	Technique and Design in the History of Printing	Hes & de Graaf	2004	NS 3
Johnson, Herbert H.	Collector's Choice: An Exhibition of Books Designed and Printed at the Riverside Press by Bruce Rogers, A	Wells College	2002
Johnston, Alastair	Transitional Faces: The Lives & Work of Richard Austin, Typecutter and Richard Turner Austin, Wood-Engraver	Poltroon Press	2013
Kegler, Richard	Aries Press of Eden, N.Y., The	RIT Press	2016	NS 21
Matthew Kelsey (new introduction)	Specimens of New Process Wood Type!	Liber Apertus Press	2024	Facsimile of the last specimen released by the William H. Page Wood Type Company, released in 1890.
Kelly, Jerry and Misha Beletsky	Noblest Roman: A History of the Centaur Types of Bruce Rogers, The	David R. Godine	2016
Kiesel, William	Printers Devices in Esoteric Publishing	Ouroboros Press	2016	NS 22
Koch, Peter Rutledge	Art of the Book in California: Five Contemporary Presses, The	Stanford University Libraries	2011
Krummel, D.W.	Literature of Music Bibliography: an Account of the Writings on the History of Music Printing and Publishing, The	Fallen Leaf Press	1995
Lane, John A.^F	Early Type Specimens in the Plantin-Moretus Museum	Oak Knoll	2004	NS 1
Lange, Gerald	Printing Digital Type on the Hand-Operated Flatbed Cylinder Press, 5th ed.	Chatwin Press	2018
Last, Jay T.	Color Explosion: Nineteenth Century American Lithography, The	Hillcrest Press	2006	NS 7
Lathem, Edward Connery and Elizabeth French Lathem, eds.	D.B.U. and R.R.: Selected Extract from Correspondence that Passed Between Daniel Berkeley Updike & Rudolph Ruzicka from 1908 to 1941	APHA	1997
Lawson, Alexander S.^A	Anatomy of a Typeface	David R. Godine	1990	OS 25
Leslie, Robert L.^A	Reminiscences of the Graphic Arts	Press of the Good Mountain	1973
Lieberman, J. Ben^A	Type and Typefaces	Myriade Press	1978
Lommen, Mathieu	Sem Hartz and the Making of Linotype Juliana	Inferno Press	2006	NS 2
Loxley, Simon	Type: The Secret History of Letters	I.B.Tauris	2004	NS 2
Maret, Russell^L	Mediaeval in Padua	Russell Maret	2008
Martin, Henri-Jean^A and Roger Chartier^A	History of the French Edition	Fayard	1989
Maslen, Keith and John Lancaster, eds.	Bowyer Ledgers: The Printing Accounts of William Bowyer Father and Son Reproduced on Microfiche with a Checklist of Bowyer Printing 1699–1777, a Commentary Indexes and Appendixes, The	Bibliographical Society /Bibliographical Society of America	1991
McCorison, Marcus A.^A	Wages of John Carter's Journeyman Printers, 1771–1779, The	American Antiquarian Society	1972
McLean, Ruari^A	Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing	University of California	1972
McGrew, Mac	American Metal Typefaces of the Twentieth Century	Oak Knoll	1993
Meggs, Philip B.	History of Graphic Design, A	Van Nostrand Reinhold	1983
Moran, Bill	Hamilton Wood Type: A History In Headlines	Blinc Publishing	2004
Morris, Henry^{A, L}	Nicolas Louis Robert and his Endless Wire Papermaking Machine	Bird & Bull	2000
Moser, Barry^L et al.	No Shortcuts : an Essay on Wood Engraving	University of Iowa Center for the Book	2001
Mosley, James^A	British Type Specimens Before 1831: a Hand-list	Oxford Bibliographical Society/University of Reading	1984
Moxon, Paul	Vandercook Presses: Maintenance, History and Resources	Fameorshame Press	2014
Needham, Paul^{A, L}	Printer & the Pardoner, The	Library of Congress	1986	OS 18
O'Leary, Chandler and Jessica Spring	Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color	Sasquatch Books	2016
Pankow, David, ed.	American Proprietary Typefaces	APHA	1998
Peterson, William S.	Bibliography of the Kelmscott Press, A	Clarendon Press, Oxford	1984	OS 17
Pomeroy, Jane R.	Alexander Anderson: Wood Engraver & Illustrator	Oak Knoll	2005	NS 1
Randle, John	Type and Typography: Highlights from Matrix, the Review for Printers and Bibliophiles	Mark Batty Publisher	2003	NS 1
Rehak, Theo	Practical Typecasting	Oak Knoll	1993	OS 31-32
Romano, Frank	History of the Linotype Company	RIT Press	2014	NS 19
Rostenberg, Leona^A and Madeleine Stern^A	From Revolution to Revolution: Perspectives on Publishing and Bookselling 1501–2001	Oak Knoll	2002
Rumble, Walker	Swifts: Printers in the Age of Typesetting Races, The	Virginia	2003
Rummonds, Richard-Gabriel^L	Nineteenth-century Printing Practices and the Iron Handpress	Oak Knoll/The British Library	2004
Russem, Michael	Checklist of the 100-cent Postage Stamps Designed by Jan van Krimpen, A	Kat Ran Press	2015
Saunders, Cathie Ruggie and Martha Chiplis	For the Love of Letterpress: A Printing Handbook for Instructors and Students	A&C Black Visual Arts	2013
Savage, L. Elizabeth [née Upper]^F	Printing Colour 1400-1700: History, Techniques, Functions and Receptions	Brill	2015
Saxe, Stephen O.^L	American Iron Hand Presses	Oak Knoll	1992	OS 28
Schlesinger, Carl, ed.	Biography of Ottmar Mergenthaler; A New Edition, The	Oak Knoll	1992	24
Shaw, Paul, ed.^F	Eternal Letter: Two Millennia of the Classical Roman Capital, The	MIT Press	2015
Silver, Rollo G.^A	Typefounding in America, 1787–1825	University Press of Virginia _	2005
Smith, Virginia	Forms in Modernism: The Unity of Typography, Architecture and the Design Arts	Watson-Guptil	2005	NS 2
Speckter, Martin K.	Disquisition on the Composing Stick		1991	1971
Stoddard, Roger E.^A	Bibliographical Description of Books and Pamphlets of American Verse Printed from 1610 Through 1820, A	Penn State	2012
Suarez, Michael F.^A	Book: A Global History, The	Oxford	1987	OS 18
Tanselle, G. Thomas^{A, L}	Essays In Bibliographical History	Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia	2013
Tebbel, John	Between Covers: The Rise and Transformation of Book Publishing in America	Oxford	1978	OS 3
Thompson, Susan Otis	American Book Design and William Morris	R.R. Bowker	1977
Thomson, Ellen Mazur	Aesthetic Tracts: Innovation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Book Design	Oak Knoll	2015	NS 21
Tichenor, Irene	No Art Without Craft: The Life of Theodore Low DeVinne, Printer	David R. Godine	2005	NS 1
Twyman, Michael^A	Printing 1770–1970: an Illustrated History of Its Development and Uses in England	British Library	1998
Vervliet, Hendrik D.L.^A	Paleo-Typography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-Century Typefaces	Brill	2008	NS 10
Voltmer, Fred and Li Jiang	Albion Assembly Manual, An	Havilah Press	2016
Walker, Gay	Works of Carl P. Rollins	Yale	1982	OS 13
Wells, James M.	Book Typography in the United States of America	University of Chicago Press	1966
White, Jessica C.	Letterpress Now: A DIY Guide to New Old Printing Methods	Lark Books	2013
Wilkinson, Hazel	Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book	Cambridge	2017
Winship, Michael^A	American Literary Publishing in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: The Business of Ticknor and Fields	Indiana University Press	1995
Young, Matthew McLennan	Field & Tuer, the Leadenhall Press	The British Library	2010	NS 10
Zlatkes, Gwido^F	Duplicator Underground: the Independent Publishing Industry in Communist Poland, 1976–89	Slavica Publishers	2016

Acknowledgments

Individuals who’ve made suggestions for this checklist include Donald Farren, Howard I. Gralla, Alastair Johnston, John Lancaster, Paul Romaine, Michael Russem, Stephen O. Saxe, Caroline Sloat.

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