Links to Rare Books on the Internet

The links below are for resources on the Internet that are similar to the ones from our own collection that are used in Clark's course "Introduction to Graphic Design".

Clay tablets

Book of palm leaves

Papyrus

One red and gold scroll

The Guide to Good Works (Arabic)

French Book of Hours
    The calendar from a book of hours
    The illuminations from a book of hours

Book of Kells

Chinese woodblock

Biblia Pauperum

Gutenberg Bible

Recueil de Chirurgie

Nuremberg Chronicle

Nicolas Jenson's printing

Aldus Manutius' printing
    Aldus' Plutarch
    Aldus' version of Dante's Devine Comedy

Albrecht Durer

Paradise Lost illustrated by John Medina

Examples of copper and steel engraving

Birds Of America by John James Audubon

An Island Garden illustraded by Childe Hassem

The House Beautiful by Frank Lloyd Wright

Golden Cockerel Press

Ode on Intimations of Immortality illustrated by Norah Neilson Gray

Bretagne by Charles LeGoffic

Creatures illustrated by Boris Artzybasheff

A Humument by Tom Phillips

Fore-edge paintings

Miniature books

Examples of various types of paper

Examples of various types of bookbinding
    Girdle book
    Fine bindings
    Coptic binding

A page with examples of many kinds of materials