Book history (or "the history of the book") encompasses aspects of history, literature, languages, printing, illustration, and design, closely associated with the study of the development of writing. This includes study of various technologies used to preserve writing, from papyri through the rise of printed books in the Early Modern period and into the digital era. This guide includes information about English-language books from this period, including a comprehensive list of our hand press era imprints to suggestions about other institutions in Central Virginia with substantial holdings or expertise.
Irene, a tragedy by Samuel Johnson. (London: Dodsley, 1749)
Seder tefilah, Hebrew prayer book (1709)
Annotations explain that Lauder's work was later discredited An Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns, in His Paradise lost., by William Lauder (London: J. Payne and J. Bouquet, in Pater-noster-Row, 1750)
Gertrude of Wyoming, by Thomas Campbell (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1812)
Engravings of the Arteries, by Sir Charles Bell (Philadelphia : A. Finley, 1816)
The Farrier's New Guide, (London: Longmans, 1738)
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