Advance Reading Lists
Rare Book School makes the advance reading lists used in its courses generally available.
Each of these reading lists is provided with links leading to the relevant Amazon.com page
for in-print items on the lists. Amazon's prices are competitive, and the links may be useful
even if you don't intend to buy the books, because of the bibliographic information
Amazon routinely provides
(ISBN, edition or printing, availability of hard-cover vs paperback editions, &c.).
Bear in mind that the out-of-print books listed
(as well as some of the in-print books) may quite possibly be found through
BookFinder.com, some of them at discount prices.
Illustration and Printing Processes |
I-10 |
Introduction to the History of Illustration |
I-20 |
Book Illustration Processes to 1900 |
I-35 |
The Identification of Photographic Print Processes |
I-70 |
Lithography: The Popularization of Printing in the C19 |
I-80 |
Japanese Printmaking, 1615-1868 |
I-85 |
Japanese Illustrated Books, 1615-1868 |
I-90 |
The Art of the Book in Edo and Meiji Japan, 1615-1912 |
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Libraries, Archives, and Electronic Resources |
L-10 |
Introduction to Special Collections Librarianship |
L-30 |
Rare Book Cataloging |
L-40 |
Visual Materials Cataloging |
L-50 |
Advanced Seminar in Special Collections Administration |
L-55 |
Donors and Libraries |
L-60 |
Introduction to Archives for Rare Book Librarians |
L-70 |
Electronic Texts and Images |
L-75 |
Electronic Texts in XML |
L-80 |
Implementing Encoded Archival Description |
L-85 |
Publishing EAD Finding Aids |
L-90 |
Designing Archival Description Systems |
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Manuscripts |
M-10 |
Introduction to Paleography, 800-1500 |
M-20 |
Introduction to Western Codicology |
M-40 |
Latin Paleography, 1100-1500 |
M-50 |
Introduction to Illuminated Manuscripts |
M-80 |
Western Manuscripts 1500-1900 |
M-85 |
Introduction to Islamic Manuscripts |
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Typography and Book Design |
T-10 |
Introduction to the History of Typography |
T-50 |
Type, Lettering and Calligraphy, 1450-1830 |
T-55 |
Type, Lettering and Calligraphy, 1830-2000 |