Here are the links from the Second Edition of the Handbook, checked and updated in November 2019. I’m going to replace these with the links from the forthcoming Third Edition very soon!  See also the posts in the Understanding Objects category.

New!

• Brother Aelfric’s Leaf Identification Tutorial, by Lisa Fagin Davis.  A fun guide which will help you identify medieval manuscript leaves.   Lots of links to other useful resources!
• Zine Librarians Interest Group

Examples and case studies cited in the Handbook

• Artists Book Collection at the University of Wisconsin, http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/ArtistsBks.
• Artists Books Online a repository of facsimiles, metadata and criticism, www.artistsbooksonline.org.
• Auchinleck Manuscript, http://auchinleck.nls.uk.
• British Library Database of Bookbindings, www.bl.uk/catalogues/bookbindings.
• British Library Diamond Sutra, www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/diamondsutra.html.
• British Library Kelmscott Chaucer, www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/landprint/kelmscott/index.html.
• British Library Digitised Manuscripts, www.bl.uk/manuscripts.
• British Library Save our Sounds Project, www.bl.uk/projects/save-our-sounds.
• Cambridge University Library Incunabula Project, blog https://inc-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/.
• Cambridge University Library Tower Project, blog  https://towerproject-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk/
• Codex Sinaiticus, www.codexsinaiticus.com/en.
• Isaac Newton book in the Cardiff Rare Books Collection, https://scolarcardiff.wordpress.com/2012/11/26/discovery-of-a-long-lost-book-from-the-library-of-sir-isaac-newton-in-the-cardiff-rare-books-collection/
• John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera, www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/johnson.
• Macclesfield Psalter, www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/macclesfield/about.
• National Library of Medicine copy of Hooke’s Micrographia, https://ceb.nlm.nih.gov/proj/ttp/flash/hooke/hooke.html.
• Plain and Simple to Grand and Glorious, https://lib-dbserver.princeton.edu/visual_materials/hb/index.html
• Private lives of books, digital.nls.uk/privatelivesofbooks/index.html.
• Provenance exhibition at Glasgow, www.gla.ac.uk/services/specialcollections/virtualexhibitions/provenance.
• Unregulated Printing (private presses), https://wwwe.lib.cam.ac.uk/CUL/exhibitions/unregulatedprinting/rinting/index.html.
• Victoria and Albert Museum artists books, www.vam.ac.uk/page/a/artists-books.

Useful websites

• ARLIS (visual arts and design librarians (helpful for artists’ books in particular), www.arlis.org.uk.
• Association for Manuscripts and Archives in Research Collections, www.amarc.org.uk.
• Association for Recorded Sound Collections, www.arsc-audio.org.
• Association of Moving Image Archivists, www.amianet.org.
• Bibliographic Society, www.bibsoc.org.uk, other societies listed here: www.bibsoc.org.uk/content/other-bibliographical-societies.
• Book-arts L listserv, www.philobiblon.com/book_arts-l.shtml.
• Bookplate Society, www.bookplatesociety.org.
• British and Irish Sound Archives, www.bisa-web.org.
• British Armorial Bindings database, http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca.
• British Library Illuminated Manuscripts Glossary (revised text of Brown, 1994), www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/glossary.asp.
• Centre for Ephemera Studies, www.reading.ac.uk/typography/research/typ-researchcentres.aspx.
• Columbia Audio-Visual Survey, https://library.columbia.edu/bts/preservation/projects.html?
• Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) (European print and manuscript heritage), www.cerl.org. CERL groups include the Manuscript Expert Group and the Book Bindings Working Group.
• Digital Scriptorium, http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/BANC/digitalscriptorium.
• Early Book Society, www.nyu.edu/projects/EBS.
• Ephemera Societies (UK), www.ephemera-society.org.uk and (US) www.ephemerasociety.org.
• IASA International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, www.iasa-web.org.
• Le Manuscrit medievale (blog about medieval manuscripts), http://blog.pecia.fr.
• LIBER Manuscript Librarians Group, https://www.cerl.org/collaboration/manuscriptexperts/main.
• Ligatus, bookbindings research centre, www.ligatus.org.uk.
• Medievalbooks: Eric Kwakkel blogging about medieval manuscripts, https://medievalbooks.nl.
• Plastics Historical Society, www.plastiquarian.com.
• Society for History of Authorship, Reading and Printing (including Sharp-L listserv), www.sharpweb.org.
• STCN-fingerprint, www.kb.nl/en/organisation/research-expertise/for-libraries/short-title-catalogue-netherlands-stcn/the-stcn-fingerprint.