Book design
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Expressive handmade books
Mesotext
Words about pictures
Fabric Picture Books
The Persian album, 1400-1600
Making Books with Kids
Neue Typographie
Making shaped books
Fabric memory books
The printers' guide, or, An introduction to the art of printing
Production for the graphic designer
How to make your own books
Notes on book design
Paul Renner
Woven and interlocking book structures
The title-page, its early development, 1460-1510
Art made from books
A history of graphic design
Printing
The Art & Craft of Handmade Books
Bookmaking
The instrument
The printed book in America
A treatise on title-pages
Paul Rand
Lyrics of earth
Reading illustrated fiction in the late imperial China
Look at My Book
Designer's Packaging Bible
Graphic design & reading
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