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Crispi Salustii De coniuratione Catilinae liber incipit, printed by the Nuns of San Jacopo di Ripoli
Crispi Salustii De coniuratione Catilinae liber incipit

printed by the Nuns of San Jacopo di Ripoli
Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Heraldry [Book of St. Albans]
Book of Hawking, Hunting, and Heraldry [Book of St. Albans]
Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium -- Papaver spinosum, by Maria Sybilla Merian
Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium -- Papaver spinosum

by Maria Sybilla Merian
Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium -- Crocodile with a coral snake, by Maria Sybilla Merian
Dissertatio de Generatione et Metamorphosibus Insectorum Surinamensium -- Crocodile with a coral snake

by Maria Sybilla Merian
Acts and Laws, of his Majesty's Colony of Rhode-Island, printed by Ann Smith Franklin
Acts and Laws, of his Majesty's Colony of Rhode-Island

printed by Ann Smith Franklin
The Deputy Commissary's Guide Within the Province of Maryland, printed by Ann Catharine Green
The Deputy Commissary's Guide Within the Province of Maryland

printed by Ann Catharine Green
The Holy Bible, printed by Jane Aitken
The Holy Bible

printed by Jane Aitken
Poems, printed by Lydia R. Bailey
Poems

printed by Lydia R. Bailey
Trout Fishing, by Fanny Palmer
Trout Fishing

by Fanny Palmer
18th & 19th Century Occupations for Women in the Bookmaking Industry
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers
18th & 19th Century Occupations for Women in the Bookmaking Industry
The Panorama of Professions and Trades
18th & 19th Century Occupations for Women in the Bookmaking Industry
Life in New York, In Doors and Out of Doors
18th & 19th Century Occupations for Women in the Bookmaking Industry
Book-Making -- The American Book Exchange
Poems: An Offering to Lancashire, printed by Emily Faithfull
Poems: An Offering to Lancashire

printed by Emily Faithfull
Te Deum Laudamus, printed by Emily Faithfull
Te Deum Laudamus

printed by Emily Faithfull
Te Deum Laudamus, printed by Emily Faithfull
Te Deum Laudamus

printed by Emily Faithfull
An Island Garden, binding design by Sarah Wyman Whitman
An Island Garden

binding design by Sarah Wyman Whitman
The Revolution, Augusta Lewis Troup
The Revolution

by Augusta Lewis Troup
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, printed for the Guild of Women Binders
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

printed for the Guild of Women Binders
How To Know the Ferns, binding design by Margaret Armstrong
How To Know the Ferns

binding design by Margaret Armstrong
La Belle au Bois Dormant et Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, bound by Sarah Prideaux
La Belle au Bois Dormant et Le Petit Chaperon Rouge

bound by Sarah Prideaux
Portrait [of S.T. Prideaux], by Leonard Baskin
Portrait of S.T. Prideaux

by Leonard Baskin
The Were-Wolf, by Clemence Housman
The Were-Wolf

by Clemence Housman
The Blue Moon, engraved by Clemence Housman
The Blue Moon

engraved by Clemence Housman
Portrait of Clemence Housman, by Leonard Baskin
Portrait of Clemence Housman

by Leonard Baskin
Women Designers of Book-Plates: Book-Plate by Helen Stratton
Women Designers of Book-Plates

Book-plate by Helen Stratton
Women Designers of Book-Plates: Book-Plate by Helen Stratton
Women Designers of Book-Plates

Book-plate by Helen Stratton
Women Designers of Book-Plates: Book-Plate by Elisabeth M. Hallowell
Women Designers of Book-Plates

Book-plate by Elisabeth M. Hallowell
The Bindings of Tomorrow, printed for the Guild of Women-Binders
The Bindings of Tomorrow

printed for the Guild of Women-Binders
The Book of the Child [title page], by Elizabeth Shippen Green and Jessie Willcox Smith
The Book of the Child

by Elizabeth Shippen Green and Jessie Willcox Smith
The Book of the Child [Frontispiece], by Elizabeth Shippen Green and Jessie Willcox Smith
The Book of the Child

by Elizabeth Shippen Green and Jessie Willcox Smith
Dickens Children, by Jessie Willcox Smith
Dickens Children

by Jessie Willcox Smith

The Dun Emer press-room 1903
The Dun Emer press-room, 1903

Twenty One Poems by Katharine Tynan, printed by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats
Twenty One Poems

printed by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats

 

Joy Be With Us, hand-colored initial by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats
Joy Be With Us

hand-colored initial by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats

Women Setting Type at the Riverside Press, Cambridge 1911
Women Setting Type at the Riverside Press, Cambridge 1911
       
 
 
 

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