The following is a highly condensed summary of Terry Belanger’s “Descriptive Bibliography,” pp. 97-101 in, Book Collecting: A Modern Guide (New York and London: R. R. Bowker, 1977) Jean Peters, ed.
This section of the research guide is concerned primarily with descriptive bibliography, especially with the terms one must master before he or she can use descriptive bibliographies intelligently. For this purpose, we need to sharpen the definition of such a common word as edition that has a precise bibliographical meaning. An edition of a book is all copies printed at one or later times from the same setting of type. Within an edition, all copies printed at any one time are called an impression. A number of impressions from the same setting of type may be produced over a period of many years, but they are all part of the same edition, because the type itself is identical in each of these impressions. An issue is that part of an edition offered for sale at one time, or as a consciously planned unit, and an edition is occasionally sold by means of several different issues. Different issues within an edition will be largely the same, but they might, for example, have different title pages. State refers to the minor differences in the printed text between one copy and another of the same book. When an error in the text is discovered during the printing of the pages, for example, the press is stopped long enough to make the correction. Sheets printed before the error was noticed constitute the uncorrected state; sheets printed after it was caught constitute the corrected state.
The word bibliography properly means the study of books. Analytical bibliography is the study of books as physical objects; the details of their production, the effects of the method of manufacture on the text. Descriptive bibliography is the close physical description of books. How is the book put together? What sort of type is used and what kind of paper? How are the illustrations incorporated into the book? How is it bound? The descriptive bibliographer must have a good working knowledge of the state of the technology of the period in order to describe a book’s physical appearance both accurately and economically.
Gradenwitz, Joseph
“The Early Hebrew Book,” pp. 165-184 in, ברכתא דאליהו The Blessing of Eliyahu. A volume dedicated to the memory of Rabbi Dr. Eliyahu Munk (London : Golders Green Beth Hamedrash Congregation, 1982)
Van Pelt Library. BM42 .B57 1982
Heller, Marvin J.
“Observations on the Worker to Book Production Ratio in an Eighteenth Century Hebrew Printing House,” pp. 257-65 in, Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2008)
Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H46 2008
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H46 2008
Heller, Marvin J.
“And the work, the work of heaven, was performed on Shabbat,” 266-77 in, Studies in the making of the early Hebrew Book (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008)
Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H46 2008
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H46 2008
Hill, Brad Sabin
Catalogue of Hebrew printers (ca. 1500-ca. 1900) : as represented in the holdings of the British Museum (now British Library) : reproduced from the unpublished manuscript held in the Hebrew Section, Oriental and India Office Collections, three volumes
London : British Library, 1995
Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z231 .B75 1995a
Hill, Brad Sabin
“A ‘Catalogue of Hebrew Printers’,” British Library Journal 21 (1995) 34-65
Van Pelt Library. Z921.B854 B73
http://www.bl.uk/eblj/1995articles/pdf/article4.pdf
Hurwitz, Phinehas Elijah
“Instructions to the printers,” [Hebrew] second introduction pp. 21-23 in, ספר הברית השלם = The complete book of the covenant (Jerusalem: S. Kroyz, 1989 or 1990)
Katz Center - Stacks. Q157 .H79 1989
Ruderman, David B.
A full translation of the preceding, “Appendix 2. Hurwitz’s Instructions on Printing His Book, from His Second Introduction,” pp. 130-134 in, A Best-Selling Hebrew Book of the Modern Era: The Book of the Covenant of Pinhas Hurwitz and Its Remarkable Legacy (Seattle ; London : University of Washington Press, 2015)
Van Pelt Library. Q157.H79 R833 2014
Yaari, Abraham
“Copyeditors’ Complaints about Printing on the Sabbath by Gentiles,” [Hebrew] pp. 170-78 in,מחקרי ספר ; פרקים בתולדות הספר העברי = Studies in Hebrew booklore (Jerusalem: Mosad ha-Rav K?uk?, 1958)
Katz Center - Reference Room. Z228.H4 Y12 1958
Allan, Nigel
“A Typographical Odyssey: the 1505 Constantinople Pentateuch,” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 31.3 (1991) 343-53
http://www.jstor.org/stable/25182384
Alston, Robin Carfrae and Brad Sabin Hill
Books printed on vellum in the collections of the British Library [compiled by Alston] ; with a catalogue of Hebrew books printed on vellum [compiled by Hill].
London : British Library, 1996.
Van Pelt Library. Z921.A14 L6 1996
Catastini, Alessandro
“An unknown parchment copy of a XVI century Seder Tefillôt”
Quntres: An Online Journal for the History, Culture, and Art of the Jewish Book 3.1 (2012)
https://taljournal.jtsa.edu/index.php/quntres/article/viewFile/81/39
Freimann, Aaron
“Die hebraischen Pergamentdrucke,” Zeitschrift für hebräische Bibliographie 15 (1911) 46-57, 82-92 and 186-7 (with addenda by A. Marx, E.N. Adler, et al.)
Katz Center - Reference Room. Z6367 .Z48
Katz Center - Stacks Z6367 .Z48
Available via HathiTrust Digital Library. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/1606086.html
Hill, Brad Sabin
"Hebrew Printing on Vellum," and, "Catalogue of Hebrew Books printed on vellum," pp. 179-212 in, Books printed on vellum in the Collections of the British Library (London : British Library, 1996) ed. Robin C. Alston
Van Pelt Library. Z921.A14 L6 1996
Hill, Brad Sabin
“Hebrew Printing on Blue and Other Coloured Papers,” pp. 84-111 in, Treasures of the Valmadonna Trust Library. A Catalogue of 15th-century Books and Five Centuries of Deluxe Hebrew Printing (New York and London: Valmadonna Trust Library, 2011) ed. David Sclar
Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z228.H4 T74 2011
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 T74 2011
Hill, Brad Sabin
“Hebrew Printing on Coloured Paper,” pp. 56-57 in, Bibliotheca Rosenthaliana : Treasures of Jewish Booklore: Marking the 200th Anniversary of the Birth of Leeser Rosenthal 1794-1994
Amsterdam university press, 1994
Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z688.J48 B43 1994
Van Pelt Library. Z6375 .B534 1994
Kittler, Juraj
“From Rags to Riches. The limits of early paper manufacturing and their impact on book print in Renaissance Venice,” Media History 21 (2015) 8-22
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/13688804.2014.955840
Offenberg, Adri K.
“The Dating of the Kol Bô -- watermarks and Hebrew Bibliography,” Studia Rosenthaliana 6 (1972) 86-106
Katz Center – Stacks. DS135.N4 S8
Van Pelt Library. DS135.N4 S8
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41481071?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Spanier, Arthur
“Eine neu Entdeckte Hebräische Inkunabel aus Italien,” Mitteilungen der Soncino-Gesellschaft 6 (1930) 25-26
Available through ILL : NYPL, Harvard University, et al.
Weiss, Wisso
"Blaues Papier für Druckzwecke, " Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1959) 26-35
Van Pelt Library. Z1008 .G98
https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img/?PID=PPN366382810_1959|log12
Yaari, Avraham
"Printed books on vellum in the Sassoon Collection," [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 14 (1937) 389-391 and 533 (addenda by I. Sonne)
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57
Yudlov, Isaac
"The collection of Hebrew books printed on parchment in the JNUL," Books & People: bulletin of the Jewish National & University Library 9 (1995) 2-6
Katz Center - Stacks Box 1. Z844.B48 B48
Yudlov, Isaac
“Printed Books on Vellum in the Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem,” [Hebrew]
Kiryat Sefer: Collected Essays 68, [supplement, Hebrew] (1998) 261-73
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
Van Pelt Library Z6367 .K57
Zerdoun Bat-Yehouda, Monique
Les papiers filigrane´s des manuscrits he´breux date´s jusqu'a` 1450 conserve´s en France et en Israe¨l [Bibliologia vol. 16-17]
Turnhout : Brepols, 1997
Van Pelt Library. Z2347 .Z47 1997
Frankel, Sarah
“Typographical Variations in Hebrew Books,” [Hebrew] Alei Sefer 15 (1988) 141-42
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z228.H4 A57
Van Pelt Library Z228.H4 A57
http://www.jstor.org/stable/24158767?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Friedman, Shamma
“Two Early "Unknown" Editions of the Mishna,” [important review article] Jewish Quarterly Review 65 (1974) 115-121
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. DS101 .J48
Research Annex (LIBRA). DS101 .J48
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1454141.pdf
Haberman, Abraham Meir
“Unintentional and Intentional Typographical Errors,” [Hebrew] Molad 14 (1956/7) 366-69
Katz Center - Periodicals B1.
Haberman, Abraham Meir
“Errors in Manuscripts and Unintentional and Intentional Typographical Errors,” [Hebrew] Hed hadefus 11 (Mar 1957) 59-60
Available at Jewish Theological Seminary Library, New York
Heller, Marvin J.
“Variations in and between Early Hebrew Books,”Gutenberg Jahrbuch (2009) 147-156
https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img/?PID=PPN366382810_0084|LOG_0019
[repr. pp. 329-344 in, Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book (Leiden: Brill, 2013)
Katz Center - Stacks.
Z228.H4 H442 2013
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H442 2013 ]
Heller, Marvin J.
“Who can discern his errors? Misdates, Errors, and Deceptions, in and about Hebrew Books, Intentional and Otherwise,” Hakirah the Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought 12 (2011) 269-291 [repr. pp. 395-420 in, Further Studies in the Making of the Early Hebrew Book (Leiden : Brill, 2013) ed. Marvin J. Heller]
http://www.hakirah.org/Vol%2012%20Heller.pdf
Katz, M.
“The Logic of Typographical Errors (from a Proof- Reader's Notebook),” [Hebrew] Hed hadefus 3/4 (Sept. 1949) 20-1
Available at Jewish Theological Seminary Library, New York. Periodical
Nahum, Yehudah Levi
“Alternate versions on an old printed page of the Rif,” [Hebrew] pp. 45-49 in, חשיפת גנזים מתימן = Revelation of Ancient Yemenite Treasures (Holon : Mif'al Hasifat Ginzei Teman, 1971) ed. Yehudah Levi Nahum
Katz Center - Stacks. BM495 .N34 1971
Rabinowitz, Dan
“Two Versions of the 1697 Frankfort Edition of the "Shu" t ha-Bach": A Product of Prurient Content?,” [Hebrew] Alei Sefer 21 (2010) 99-111
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z228.H4 A57
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A57
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24159679.pdf?_=1459431302645
Regev, Shaul
“R. Isaac Aderbi's "Divrei Shalom": Between Venice and Warsaw Editions,” [Hebrew] Alei Sefer 23 (2012) 51 – 62
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z228.H4 A57
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A57
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/24159708.pdf?_=1459433635007
Rivkind, Isaac
“Some Detailed Observations on Early Hebrew Printing (Deviations and Variations),” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 2 (1924/5) 54-63; 4 (1926/7) 273-280; 10 (1933/4) 489-97
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57
Rivkind, Isaac
“Variants in Old Books,” [Hebrew] pp. 401-32 in, Alexander Marx Jubilee Volume on the occasion of his seventieth birthday. Hebrew Section (New York: The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1950)
Katz Center - Stacks. BM42.M379 L5432 1950
Van Pelt - Judaica/Ancient Near East Resource Room (401). BM40 .J54 1950
Rodrigue Schwarzwald, Ora
“Lexical Variations in Two Ladino Prayer Books for Women,” pp. 53-86 in, Lexicología y lexicografía judeoespañolas (Bern ; New York : Peter Lang, 2011) edd. Winfried Busse and Michael Studemund-Halévy
Katz Center - Stacks. PC4813 .L49 2011
Shivtiel, Yitshak
“Alternate versions of pages from an old printed Mishnah,” [Hebrew] pp. 38-45 in, חשיפת גנזים מתימן = Revelation of Ancient Yemenite Treasures (Holon : Mif'al Hasifat Ginzei Teman, 1971) ed. Yehudah Lev?i Nah?um
Katz Center - Stacks. BM495 .N34 1971
Spiegel, Jacob
"Regarding the Bragadin and Justinian Editions of Maimonides' Mishneh Torah," [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 47 (1972)493-501
Katz Center – Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57
Yaari, Abraham
“Variant Readings in [unknown printed] Mishna Pesahim,” [Hebrew] Sinai 44 (1959) 237-249
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PERIODICAL
Yudlov, Isaac
“Ashmoret ha-Boker' by R. Aharon Berechia of Modena; A censored and uncensored edition,” [Hebrew] Alei Sefer 10 (1982) 113-17
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z228.H4 A57
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A57
http://www.jstor.org/stable/24160130?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Yudlov, Isaac
“Different Title Pages to a Book of Commentaries of Rashi from the Constantinople Press,” [Hebrew] Alei Sefer 17 (1992/3) 137-8
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z228.H4 A57
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A57
http://www.jstor.org/stable/24158799?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Yudlov, Isaac
“Title-Page variants in some Early Hebrew Books,” [Hebrew] Alei Sefer 11 (1984) 135-48
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z228.H4 A57
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A57
http://www.jstor.org/stable/24152678?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Yudlov, Isaac
“Typographical Changes in Hebrew Books,” [Hebrew] Areshet 6 (1980) 95-122
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Periodical
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 A74
Baruchson, Shifra
“Money and Culture: Financing Sources and Methods in the Hebrew Printing Shops in Cinquecento Italy,” La Bibliofilia 92 (2000) 23-39
Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .B56
Bonfil, Robert
“A contract for printing books in 19th century Livorno,” [Hebrew] Kiryat Sefer 64 (1992/3) 1089-94
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z6367 .K57
Van Pelt Library. Z6367 .K57
Bregoli, Francesca
“Commerce and Jewish Culture. The Business of Hebrew Publishing,” pp. 181-207 in, Mediterranean Enlightenment : Livornese Jews, Tuscan culture, and eighteenth-century reform (Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, 2014) ed. Francesca Bregoli
Van Pelt Library. DS135.I85 L5817 2014
Fuks, Lajb and Renate G. Fuks-Mansfeld
“The Financiers of Menasseh Ben Israel’s Printing House in Amsterdam, 1627-1655,” pp. 313-319 in, יד להימן קובץ מחקרים לזכר א"מ הברמן = The A. M. Habermann Memorial Volume (Lod : Mekhon Haberman le-meh?k?ere sifrut, 1983) ed. Zevi Malachi
Van Pelt Library. PJ5016 .Y33 1983
Pollak, Michael
“Production Costs in Fifteenth Century Printing,” Library Quarterly 39 (1969) 318-30
Research Annex (LIBRA). Z671 .L713
http://www.jstor.org/stable/4306023
Pollak, Michael
“The Daily Performance of a Printing Press in 1476: Evidence from a Hebrew Incunable,” Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1974) 66-76
Van Pelt Library. Z1008 .G98
https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img/?PID=GDZPPN000484997
Pollak, Michael
“The Performance of the Wooden Printing Press,” The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy 42.2 (1972) 218 - 264
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4306163.pdf?acceptTC=true
Roberts, Julian and G.J. Toomer
“The Fetherstone Catalogue of Hebrew Books,” Bodleian Library Record 19.1 (2006) 47-76 [in the year 1650, George Walker purchased 101 Hebrew imprints from Henry Fetherstone for Sion College, London]
Research Annex (LIBRA). Z792.O94 B6
Rosenthal, Avraham
“Some remarks on «The daily performance of a printing press in 1476»,” Gutenberg- Jahrbuch 54 (1979) 39-50
Van Pelt Library. Z1008 .G98
https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img/?PID=GDZPPN000488267
Schwarz, Arthur Z.
“Eine Verkaufsbestätigung des Geršom Soncino,” Soncino Blätter 1 (1925/6) 14-15
Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z6367 .S69
Simonsohn, Shlomo
“A Contact for the Printing of Hebrew Books in Cremona,” [Hebrew], pp. 143-50 in, Scritti in Memoria di Umberto Nahon : saggi sull' ebraismo italiano (Jerusalem: Sally Mayer Foundation, 1978) edd. Robert Bonfil et al.
Katz Center - Stacks. BM42.N346 B664 1978
Simpson, Julianne
“Selling the Biblia Regia: The Marketing and Distribution Methods for Christopher Plantin's Polyglot Bible,” pp. 27-55 in, Books for Sale: The Advertising and Promotion of Print since the Fifteenth Century (New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press ; London : British Library, 2009) edd. Robin Myers, Michael Harris and Giles Mandelbrote
Van Pelt Library. Z280 .B68 2009
Van Rooden, Peter T. and Jan Wim Wesselius
“Two Early Cases of Publication by Subscription in Holland and Germany; Jacob Abendana’s Mikhlol Yofi (1661) and David Cohen de Lara’s Keter kehunah (1667),” Quaerendo 16 (1986) 110-30
Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .Q13
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/157006986x00125
Bromer, Anne C. and Julian I. Edison
Miniature books: 4,000 years of tiny treasures
New York: Abrams in association with Grolier Club, 2007
Van Pelt Library. Z1033.M6 B76 2007
Cohen, Evelyn
“M. Isaac Norsa’s Hebrew Miscellany of 1523,” Princeton University Library Chronicle 64.1 (2002) 87-106
Van Pelt Library. Z733.P93 C5
http://libweb5.princeton.edu/visual_materials/pulc/index.html
Contessa, Andreina
“Jewish Book Collection and Patronage in Renaissance Italy,” pp. 37-57 in, The Italia Judaica Jubilee Conference (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2013) edd. Shlomo Simonsohn and Joseph Shatzmiller
Katz Center - Stacks. DS135.I8 I883 2010
Van Pelt Library. DS135.I8 I883 2010
Edison, Julian I.
“Miniature Judaica,” Miniature Book News 59 (December 1988) 1-4, http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9436/m1/1/
continued in 60 (March 1989) 1-2
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9435/m1/1/
Feffer, Solomon
“Hebrew Miniature Books,” Jewish Book Annual 27 (1969) 35-41
Katz Center – Stacks. PN6067 .J4
Van Pelt Library. PN6067 .J4
[repr., pp. 384-90 in, Essays on Jewish Booklore (New York: KTAV, 1972) ed. Philip Goodman; Katz Center - Stacks. PN842 .G66 1971]
Grunberger, Michael W.
“Miniature Hebrew Books,” Miniature Book News 78 (Sept. 1993) 8
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9420/m1/8/
and continued as “Hebrew Bibles,” Miniature Book News, 79 (December 1993) 2-7
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9419/m1/7/
[repr. of AB Antiquarian Bookman's Weekly (May 7, 1990) 1941-1948
Offenberg, Adri K.
“Was the Real First Printed Hebrew Biblical Text a Pocket-Sized Psalter?” pp. 227-35 in, Give Ear to My Words: Psalms and Other Poetry In and Around the Hebrew Bible: Essays in Honour of Professor N.A. van Uchelen (Amsterdam ; Kampen, NL : Societas Hebraica Amstelodamensis : KOK Pharos Publishing House, 1996) ed. Janet Dyk
Katz Center - Stacks. BM42.U35 D95 1996
Van Pelt Library. BM42.U35 D65 1996
Rivkind, Isaac
“A Pocket Edition Prayer Book for German Jewish Emigrants to America, 1842,” Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society 35 (1939) 207-212
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. E184.J5 A5
Research Annex (LIBRA). E184.J5 A5
Beaujon, Paul [= Beatrice Warde]
“The ‘Garamond Types’ Sixteenth & Seventeenth century sources considered,” The Fleuron: A Journal of Typography 5 (1926) 131-79
Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Rare Book Collection. 655.05 F639
Carter, Harry Graham, ed.
Sixteenth-Century French Typefounders: The Le Bé Memorandum
Paris : Privately printed for A. Jammes, 1967
Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Rare Book Collection. Z250.A2 L4
De Rossi, Giovanni Bernardo
De Hebraicae Typographiae
Parmae [Italy] : ex Regio typographeo, 1776
Katz Center - Stacks. Z7070 .D47
Available via HathiTrust Digital Library. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/8885789.html
Dreyfus, John with Hendrik Désiré Louis Vervliet and Harry Carter
Type Specimen Facsimiles: vol. 2, Reproductions of Christopher Plantin's 'Index sive specimen characterum' 1567 & folio specimen of c.1585, together with the Le Bé-Moretus specimen, c.1599 (Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1963-1972)
Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Reference Collection Folio. Z250 .T9653
Eames, Wilberforce
On the use of Hebrew types in English America before 1735
New York : [s.n.], 1929
Katz Center - Reference Room. Z251.H4 E2
[repr. pp. 481-502 in, Studies in Jewish bibliography and related subjects, in memory of Abraham Solomon Freidus (1867-1923), late chief of the Jewish Division, New York Public Library
(New York : The Alexander Kohut Memorial Foundation, Distributed by the Jewish Division, New York Public Library, 1929)
Katz Center - Stacks. BM42 .F745 1929
Katz Center - Reference Room. BM42 .F745 1929
Research Annex. (LIBRA). 274B St93]
Freimann, Aaron
Thesaurus typographiae hebraicae saeculi XV
(Jerusalem, Universitas Booksellers, c1968 [Appeared originally in 8 parts. Published in Berlin 1924-1931])
Katz Center - Reference Folio. Z240 .F77 1968 with supplement
Fuks, Leo and Renate Fuks
“Hebrew Typography in Leiden, 1585-1759,” Quaerendo 9.1 (1979) 3-42
Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .Q13
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/157006979x00097
Fuks, Leo and Renate Fuks-Mansfeld
Hebrew Typography in the Northern Netherlands, 1585-1815: Historical Evaluation, and Descriptive Bibliography, 2 volumes
Leiden : Brill, 1984
Katz Center - Reference Room. Z228.H4 F84 1984
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 F84 1984
Fuks, Leo and Rena Fuks
“The First Hebrew Types of Menasseh ben Israel,” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 12 (1979) 3-8
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PN6067 .S883
Van Pelt Library. PN6067 .S883
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=studbibliobook
Haebler, Konrad
“Typefounding and Commerce in Type during the early years of printing,” Ars Typographica 3 (1926) 32-35
Available via BorrowDirect from Johns Hopkins University
Haiman, György
Nicholas Kis: Hungarian Punch-Cutter and Printer, 1650-1702
San Francisco : J.W. Stauffacher/Greenwood Press in association with J. Howell-Books, 1983
Van Pelt Library. Z232.T814 H3313 1983
Haiman, György
"Blank spots in the history of Tótfalusi Kis Miklós' types,"
Acta Litteraria Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 28 (1986) 261-265
Research Annex (LIBRA). PN1 .A3
Howe, Ellic
“An introduction to Hebrew Typography,” Signature. A Quadrimestrial of Typography and Graphic Arts 5 (1937) 12-29
Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Rare Book Collection. Z119 .S57
Klocke, Heiner, and Ittai Joseph Tamari, edd.
Hebrew Typography in German-Speaking Regions: An Interim Report / Hebräische Typographie im deutschsprachigen Raum: Eine Zwischenbilanz
Cologne: Fachhochschule Köln, Campus Gummersbach, 2001
http://www.gm.fh-koeln.de/hebrewtype/englisch/e_willkommen.html
Lane, John A.
"The Printing Office of Gerrit Harmansz van Riemsdijck, Israël Abrahamsz de Paull, Abraham Olofsz, Andries Pietersz, Jan Claesz Groenewoudt & Elizabeth Abrahams Wiaer c.1660-1709," Quaerendo 43 (2013) 311-439
Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .Q13
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15700690-12341283
Lane, John
"The Types of Nicholas Kis," Journal of the Printing Historical Society 18 (1983/4) 61-65
Van Pelt Library. Z119 .P745
Lubell, Stephen
Sixteenth-Century Hebrew Typography: A Typographical and Historical Analysis Based Primarily on the Guillaume I Le Bé Documents in the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
PhD. dissertation. University of London, 2014
Two volumes in one file. http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/5641/2/Stephen_Lubell_MA_Dissertation_%28May_2014%29.pdf
Lubell, Stephen
The use of Hebrew in the Antwerp Polyglot Bible
MA Thesis. University of London, 2008; revised 2009
http://sas-space.sas.ac.uk/2571/3/Lubell_-_dissertation_revised_January09.pdf
Marx, Alexander
“Aldus and the first Use of Hebrew Type in Venice,” The Papers of the Bibliographic Society of America 13 (1919) 64-67
Van Pelt Library. 010.6 B473
Research Annex (LIBRA). 10.6 B473
Nelson, Stan
“Mould Making, Matrix Fitting, and Hand Casting,” Visible Language 19 (1985) 106-20
Van Pelt Library. Z119 .J88
Offenberg, Adri K.
“Hebräische Schrifttypen,” Lexikon des gesamten Buchwesens, 2nd edition, 3 (1991) 407-08
Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Reference Collection. Z118 .L67 1985
Offenberg, Adri K.
“The Hidden Treasure of Athias,” Quaerendo 37.2 (2007) 96 – 110
Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .Q13
http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/157006907x174247
Omont, Henri
Spécimens de Charactères Hébreux Gravés a Venisé et a Paris par Guillaume le Bé (1546-1574)
Paris 1887) 1-9 [extract from Mémoires de la Société de l’Histoire de Paris et de l’Ile-de-France 14 (1887) 257-264]
Katz Center - Stacks. PJ5031 .O46 1887
Van Pelt Library 944.36 So13.2
Available via HathiTrust Digital Library. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hnkw1f
Parker, Mike
“Punches and Matrices of the Museum Plantin-Moretus,” Printing & Graphic Arts 6 (1958) 53-66
Research Annex (LIBRA). 655.05 P936
Parker, Mike and Karl Melis
Inventaris van de Stempels en Matrijzen van het Museum Plantin-Moretus. Inventory of the Plantin-Moretus Museum Punches and Matrices. English
Antwerp: Museum-Plantin Moretus, (Reproduced from typewritten copy for private circulation, April 1960)
Research Annex (LIBRA). 655.1493 An88
Parker, Mike, Karl Melis and Hendrik Désiré Louis Vervliet
“Typographica Plantiniana II: Early Inventories of Punches, Matrices and Moulds in the Plantin-Moretus Archives,” De Gulden Passer 38 (1960) 1-139
Van Pelt Library. Z1007 .G93
Rex, Richard
“The earliest use of Hebrew in books printed in England: dating some works of Richard Pace and Robert Wakefield,” Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society 9 (1990) 517-525
Van Pelt Library. Z1008 .C2
http://www.jstor.org/stable/41154795?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Sixtová, Olga
“The beginnings of Prague Hebrew typography 1512-1569,” pp. 75-121 in, Hebrew Printing in Bohemia and Moravia (Prague: Academia – The Jewish Museum in Prague, 2012) Olga Sixtova´, ed.; tr. by Pavel Sla´dek et al.
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H43713 2012
Fine Arts Library. Z228.H4 H43713 2012
Tamari, Ittai Joseph
“Hebräisch-schriftliche Drucke aus dem 15. bis 19. Jahrhundert,” pp. 33-52, 452-460 in, Sprachen des Nahen Ostens und die Druckrevolution (Westhofen : WVA-Verlag Skulima, 2002) edd. Eva Hanebutt-Benz, Dagmar Glass, and Geoffrey Roper
Van Pelt Library. Z126 .M53 2002
Vervliet, Hendrik Désiré Louis
“Hebrews” pp. 366-406 in, French Renaissance printing types: a conspectus (New Castle, Delaware: The Bibliographical Society, The Printing Historical Society and Oak Knoll Press, 2010) Hendrik Désiré Louis Vervliet
Rare Book & Manuscript Library Reading Room. Z250.A2 V46 2010
Van Pelt Library. Z250.A2 V46 2010
Vervliet, Hendrik Désiré Louis
“The Garamond Types of Christopher Plantin,” Journal of the Printing Historical Society 1 (1965) 14-20
Van Pelt Library. Z119 .P745
Vervliet, Hendrik Désiré Louis
The Palaeotypography of the French Renaissance: Selected Papers on Sixteenth-century Typefaces, two volumes
Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008
“The Printing Types of the Young Robert I Estienne 1526-1530” I: 97-104
“Robert Estienne’s Printing Types,” I:105-48
“Cyrillic & Oriental Typography in Rome at the End of the Sixteenth Century: An Inquiry into the Later Work of Robert Granjon; 1578-1590,” [revised translation of “Robert Granjon a` Rome 1578-1589 : notes pre´liminaires a` une histoire de la typographie romaine a` la fin du XVIe sie`cle,” Bulletin de l’Institut historique belge à Rome, vol. 38 (1967) 177–231] II 427-74
Van Pelt Library. Z250.A2 V47 2008
Vervliet, Hendrik Désiré Louis
“Robert Estienne’s Printing Types,” The Library, ser. 7, 5.2 (2004) 107-175
Van Pelt Library. Z671 .L69
Zafren, Herbert C.
“Variety in the Typography of Yiddish: 1535-1635,” HUCA 53 (1982) 137-163
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. BM90 .H43
Van Pelt - Judaica/Ancient Near East Resource Room (401). BM11 .H4
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=hebruniocollannu
Benayahu, Meir
הסכמה ורשות בדפוסי ויניציאה : הספר העברי מעת הבאתו לדפוס ועד צאתו לאור.
= Copyright, Authorization and Imprimatur for Hebrew Books Printed in Venice: The Hebrew Book from Printing to Publication Jerusalem: Ben-Zvi Institute and Mosad ha-Rav Kook, 1971
Van Pelt Library. Z156 .B43
Berger, Shlomo
“An Invitation to Buy and Read: Paratexts of Yiddish Books in Amsterdam, 1650-1800,” Book History 7 (2004) 31-61
Van Pelt Library. Z4 .B645
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/book_history/
Berger, Shlomo
Producing Redemption in Amsterdam: Early Modern Yiddish Books in Paratextual Perspective
Leiden: Brill, 2013
Katz Center - Stacks. PJ5124 .B38 2013
Van Pelt Library. PJ5124 .B38 2013
Berger, Shlomo
“A publisher in service of his readers: prefaces to Amsterdam 1711 edition of the Tsene Rene,” pp. 28-37 in, Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History. EMW 2009: Reading across Cultures: The Jewish Book and Its Readers in the Early Modern Period
http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/emw/emw2009/
Breger, Jennifer
“Competition in the Hebrew Book Market,” AB Bookman’s Weekly (Feb. 27, 1995) 940-952
Available at many BorrowDirect libraries, but does not circulate
Brilling, Bernhard
“Die Privilegien der hebraischen Buchdruckereien in Altona (1726-1836),” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 9 (1969-1971) 155-156 and 11 (1976) 41-56
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PN6067 .S883L
Van Pelt Library. PN6067 .S883
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=studbibliobook
Campanini, Saverio
“Le prefazioni, le dediche, e i colophon di Gershom Soncino,” pp. 31-58 in, L'attività editoriale di Gershom Soncino 1502-1527. Atti del convegno Soncino, 17 settembre 1995 (Soncino (Cremona) : Edizioni dei Soncino, c1997) ed. by Giuliano Tamani
Van Pelt Library. Z232.S69 A88 1997
Cooperman, Bernard Dov
“Amicitia and Hermeticism. Paratext as Key to Judah Moscato’s Nefușot Yehudah,” pp. 79-104 in, Rabbi Judah Moscato and the Jewish Intellectual World of Mantua in the 16th-17th Centuries (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2012) edd. Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto
Katz Center - Stacks. BM755.M59 R33 2012
Van Pelt Library. BM755.M59 R33 2012
Fontaine Verwey, Herman de la
“Les debuts de la protection des caracteres typographiques au XVe siecle,” Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1965) 24-34
Van Pelt Library. Z1008 .G98
https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img/?PID=PPN366382810_1965|log11
Freehof, Solomon Bennett
“Some Autographs on Title Pages of Hebrew Books,” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 9 (1970) 106-112
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PN6067 .S883L
Van Pelt Library. PN6067 .S883
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=studbibliobook
Gries, Zeev
“Tradition and Change in the Transition from Manuscript to Print,” [Hebrew] Alei Sefer 24-25 (2015) 17-33
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. Z228.H4 A57
Van Pelt Library Z228.H4 A57
http://www.jstor.org/tc/verify?origin=/stable/pdf/aleisefer.24-25.17.pdf?_=1459436773211
Gries, Zev
“The Hasidic Managing Editor as an Agent of Culture,” pp. 141-155 in, Hasidism Reappraised (London ; Portland, Or. : Vallentine Mitchell, 1996) ed. Ada Rapoport-Albert
Katz Center - Stacks. BM198.3 .H38 1996
Van Pelt Library. BM198.3 .H38 1996
Haberman, Abraham Meir
“Declarations made by authors and printers in order to obtain approbations from the local authority,” [Hebrew] pp. 60-71 in, Essays and Studies in Librarianship Presented to Curt David Wormann (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, Hebrew University, 1975) edd. Mordekhai Nadav and Jacob Rothschild.
Katz Center - Reference Room. Z674 .E78 1975
Habermann, Abraham Meir, Isaac Rivkind and Abraham Yaari
“Notes on Signatures Found in Hebrew Books II,” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 1 (1953/4) 77-81
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PN6067 .S883L
Van Pelt Library. PN6067 .S883
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=studbibliobook
Heller, Marvin J.
“The Eagle Motif in 16th and 17th Century Hebrew Books,” Printing History, n.s. 17 (2015) 16-40
Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Rare Book Collection. Z124.A2 P74
Van Pelt Library. Z124.A2 P755
Heller, Marvin J.
“Mars and Minerva on the Hebrew Title Page,” pp. 1-17 in, Studies in the making of the early Hebrew Book (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008)
Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H46 2008
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H46 2008
Heller, Marvin J.
“Mirror-image Monograms as Printers' Devices on Title Pages of Hebrew Books Printed in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,” pp. 33-43 in, Studies in the making of the early Hebrew Book (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2008)
Katz Center - Stacks. Z228.H4 H46 2008
Van Pelt Library. Z228.H4 H46 2008
Heller, Marvin J.
“Often Overlooked: Examples of Front-matter in Early Hebrew Books,” Quntres (2011) 1-21
https://taljournal.jtsa.edu/index.php/quntres/article/viewFile/67/33
Jakimyszyn, Anna
“Jewish Printers’ Marks from Germanic States and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (16th –18th Centuries),” Bulletin der Polnischen Historischen Mission 9 (2014) 199-213
http://apcz.pl/czasopisma/index.php/BPMH/article/viewFile/4422/4220
Karp, Abraham J.
“Notes on Signatures Found in Hebrew Books III,” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 15 (1984) 22-26
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PN6067 .S883L
Van Pelt Library. PN6067 .S883
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=studbibliobook
Kaufmann, David
"The first approbation of Hebrew books," Jewish Quarterly Review 10 (1898) 383-384
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery DS101 .J48
Research Annex (LIBRA). DS101 .J48
Available via HathiTrust Digital Library. http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015005453132;view=1up;seq=11
Meral, Yasin
“Erken Dönem ibrani Matbaaciliginda Haham Onaylari ve Cemaat Içi Sansür,” [Approbation of the Rabbis in Early Hebrew Printing and Internal Censorship] Dini Araştırmalar 18.47 (2015) 96-118
http://dergipark.ulakbim.gov.tr/da/article/viewFile/5000164553/5000148951
Also available on line via Google+, Facebook or Twitter. https://www.academia.edu/19881130/Erken_D%C3%B6nem_%C4%B0brani_Matbaac%C4%B1l%C4%B1%C4%9F%C4%B1nda_Haham_Onaylar%C4%B1_ve_Cemaat_%C4%B0%C3%A7i_Sans%C3%BCr_Approbation_of_the_Rabbis_in_Early_Hebrew_Printing_and_Internal_Censorship_
Meral, Yasin
“Ibrani Matbaaciliginda Telif Haklari: 16-18. Yüzyillar [Copyright in Hebrew Printing: 16th -18th Centuries],” Insan ve Toplum Bilimleri Arastirmalari Dergisi [Journal of the Human and Social Sciences Researches] 5.2 (2016) 298-320
http://itobiad.com/article/viewFile/5000147978/5000163021
Netanel, Neil Weinstock
“Maharam of Padua v. Giustiniani; the Sixteenth-Century Origins of the Jewish Law of Copyright,” Houston Law Review 44 (2007) 821-70
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1066285
Offenberg, Adri K.
“How to define printing in Hebrew: a fifteenth-century list of the goods of a Jewish traveller and his wife,” The Library. Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, s. 6 16 (1994) 43-49
Van Pelt Library. Z671 .L69
Pollak, Michael
“The Prophetess Deborah and the Invention of Printing,” [concerning the colophon in Arba’a Turim, Piove de Sacco, 1475] Visible Language 7.4 (1973) 345-50
Van Pelt Library. Z119 .J88
Pollak, Michael
“Some Observations on Printing in a Hebrew Text Dated 1612,” Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1976) 315-325
Van Pelt Library. Z1008 .G98
https://www.digizeitschriften.de/dms/img/?PID=GDZPPN000486612
Rosman, Moshe
“Shlomo Lutzker's Introduction to Magid Devarav Le-Ya'akov,” pp. 38-49 in, Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History. EMW 2009: Reading across Cultures: The Jewish Book and Its Readers in the Early Modern Period
http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/emw/emw2009/
Shear, Adam
“The Paratexts of Judah Marcaria: Addressing the (Imagined) Reader in Mid-Sixteenth-Century Italy,” pp. 58-75 in, Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History. EMW 2009: Reading across Cultures: The Jewish Book and Its Readers in the Early Modern Period
http://wesscholar.wesleyan.edu/emw/emw2009/
Sonne, Isaiah and Herbert C. Zafren
“Notes on Signatures Found in Hebrew Books I,” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 1 (1953/4) 14-20
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. PN6067 .S883L
Van Pelt Library. PN6067 .S883
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=studbibliobook
Weinberg, Bella Hass
“The Earliest Hebrew Citation Indexes,” Journal of the American Society for Information Science (1986-1998) 48 (1997) 318-330
http://search.proquest.com/docview/216904727?pq-origsite=summon
Witcombe, Christopher L.C.E.
Copyright in the Renaissance: Prints and the Privilegio in Sixteenth-Century Venice and Rome
Leiden: Brill, 2004
Van Pelt Library. KKH1160 .W58 2004
Yaari, Abraham
דגלי המדפיסים העבריים : מראשית הדפוס העברי ועד סוף המאה התשע-עשרה = Hebrew printers' marks from the beginning of Hebrew printing to the end of the 19th century
Jerusalem : The Hebrew University Press Association, 1943
Katz Center - Reference Room. Z236.H4 Y2 1943
Katz Center - Stacks. Z236.H4 Y2 1943
Katz Center - Reference Room. Z236.H4 Y2 1971
Yudlov, Isaac
דגלי מדפיסים : חמישים וארבעה סמלי מדפיסים מו״לים ומחברים עבריים = Hebrew printers' marks
Jerusalem : Y. Yudlov, 2001
Katz Center - Reference Room. Z236.H4 Y8 2001
Van Pelt Library. Z236.H4 Y8 2001
Zafren, Herbert C.
“The Value of Face Value,” HUCA 40/41 (1969/70) 555-580
Katz Center - Periodicals Gallery. BM11 .H4
Van Pelt - Judaica/Ancient Near East Resource Room (401). BM11 .H4
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=hebruniocollannu
17th century blind tooled binding, Meir Nativ (Venice: Bomberg, 1523): Cambridge, St. John's College.
http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/early_books/pix/provenance/scarlet/scarlet.htm
Avrin, Leila, “The Box Binding in the Klau Library,” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 17 (1989) 26-35
Avrin, Leila, “The Sephardi Box Binding,” pp. 27-43 + 24 pls. in Library Archives and Information Studies, Scripta Hierosolymitana 29 (1989); especially pp. 40-43 and pls. 19-24 discussing the only printed Bible with such a binding.
Grunwald, Max, “Juden als Buchbinder,” Mitteilungen der Soncino-Gesellschaft 6 (1930) 17-25
RBML, SPINOZA 193Sp4 FS764
Husung, Max Jospeh, “Über den sogenannten Jüdischen Lederschnitt,” Soncino-Blätter 1 (1925/6) 29-43 + 3 pls.
Husung, Max Jospeh, “Ein jüdischer Lederschnittkünstler,” Soncino-Blätter 1 (1925/6) 197-98
Italiener, Bruno, “Isak B. Secharjah, ein jiidischer Lederschnittkiinstler des 15. Jahrhunderts,” pp. 159-161 in Festschrift für Aron Freimann Zum 60. Geburtstage (Berlin : Soncino-Gesellschaft, 1935) edd. Alexander Marx and Hermann Meyer
Katzenstein, Ursula Ephraim, “Mair (sic!) Jaffe and Bookbinding Research,” Studies in Bibliography and Booklore 14 (1982) 17-28
Kurz, Otto, “A Copy after the Master E. S. on a Jewish Bookbinding,” [Brit. Mus. Ms. Add. 14762, fifteenth century Haggadah] Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 24 (1965) 3-11
Landsberger, Franz, “The Cincinnati Haggadah and Its Decorator,” HUCA 15 (1941) 529-558
Burke and Offsite TX91 H43 IA
Mazal, Otto, “Der jüdischer Lederschnitteinband,” pp. 189-208 in, Jüdische Buchkunst, two volumes (Graz, Austria : Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1983-1992) edd. Ursula Schubert and Kurt Schubert
Rare Book Graphic Arts (Non-Circulating) ND2935 .S38 1983
Needham, Paul, “Jewish Bookbinding from Provence, after 1422,” pp. 78-81 in his Twelve Centuries of Bookbindings, 400-1600 (New York : Pierpont Morgan Library : Oxford University Press, c1979); one 15th century binding
Rare Book & Manuscript Library - Reference Collection. Folio Z269 .N37