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A guide to the exhibition in the King's Library illustrating the history of printing, music-printing and bookbinding, London, British Museum, Printed by order of the Trustees, 1926, 8vo., black cloth


Short-title catalogue of Books Printed in France and of French Books Printed in Other Countries from 1470‐1600, (London 1924), reprint London, British Museum, 1966, 8vo. - - Supplement, London, British Library, 1987, 8vo., both publisher's blue cloth


Short-title catalogue of Books Printed in the German‐Speaking Countries and German Book Printed in Other Countries, 1455‐1600, London, 1962, 8vo., blue cloth


Short-title catalogue of Books Printed in Italy and of Italian Books Printed in Other Countries from 1465 to 1600, London, British Museum, 1958, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth -- Supplement, London, British Library, 1990, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth


Short-title catalogue of Books Printed in the Netherlands and Belgium and of Dutch and Flemish Books Printed in Other Countries from 1470 to 1600, London, British Museum, 1965, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket


Short-title catalogue of Spanish, Spanish‐American and Portuguese Books Printed before 1601, London, British Museum, 1966, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket


Frank Isaac, An Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum, Part II, MDI‐MDXX, Section II, Italy, Section III, Switzerland and Eastern Europe, London, Quaritch, 1938, fol., black cloth, original printed wrappers bound in


Robert Proctor, An Index of German Books 1501‐1520 in the British Museum, (London 1903), reprint London, Holland Press, 1954, 4to., publisher's beige cloth, printed dust wrapper


Nicolas Barker, et al., Treasures of the British Library, London, British Library, 1988, fol., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket


Arundell Esdaile, The British Museum Library, a short history and survey, (London, 1948), reprint London, 1979, 8vo., publisher's cloth


Giles Mandelbrote & Barry Taylor, Libraries within the Library: The Origins of the British Library's Printed Collections, London, British Library, 2009, 4to., publisher's blue cloth, dust jacket


Edward Miller, Prince of Librarians: The Life & Times of Antonio Panizzi of the British Museum, Athens (Ohio), Ohio University Press, 1967, publisher's red cloth, dust jacket


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