ABC for Book Collectors (glossary of terms describing various components of books, used by book dealers and rare book catalogers)
http://www.ilab.org/eng/documentation/29-abc_for_book_collectors.html
Dictionary of Literary Biography:
http://galenet.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/servlet/GLD/form?l=4&locID=purdue
Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans:
http://infoweb.newsbank.com.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/iw-search/we/Evans?
Early English Books Online (EEBO):
http://eebo.chadwyck.com.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/home
Eighteenth Century Collections Online:
http://find.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/ecco/start.do?prodId=ECCO&userGroupName=purdue_main
Electronic Beowulf
English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC)
http://estc.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-estc
First Folio of Shakespeare's Plays (Bodleian Library)
http://firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
Internet Shakespeare Editions Facsimile Viewer
http://internetshakespeare.uvic.ca/Library/facsimile/
Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
http://www.itergateway.org.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/resources
JSTOR
http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/
MESA (Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance)
Middle English Compendium
http://quod.lib.umich.edu.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/m/mec/
MLA International Bibliography
http://search.proquest.com.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/mlaib/index?accountid=13360
Sabin Americana
http://galenet.galegroup.com.ezproxy.lib.purdue.edu/servlet/Sabin?locID=purdue_main
UCLA Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
Image source: Thad McIlroy, The Future of Publishing
Brown, Michelle P. and Patricia Lovett. The Historical Source Book for Scribes. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.
Brown, Michelle P. Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts: A Guide to Technical Terms. California: The J. Paul Getty Museum in association with The British Library, 1994.
Carter, John and Nicholas Barker. ABC for Book Collectors. Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2006. (Available online)
Clemens, Raymond and Timothy Graham. Introduction to Manuscript Studies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2007.
de Hamel, Christopher. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2002.
de Hamel, Christopher. Gilding the Lilly: A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library. Bloomington: Indiana University, Lilly Library, 2010.
de Hamel, Christopher. The Book. A History of the Bible. New York: Phaidon Press Limited, 2001.
Derolez, Albert. The Palaeography of Gothic Manuscript Books, from the Twelfth to the Early Sixteenth Century, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2003.
Dictionary of Latin Abbreviations
Gaskell, Phillip. A New Introduction to Bibliography. Delaware: Oak Knoll Press, 2000.
International Medieval Bibliography, 1967. (HSSE Library: Periodicals 016.9401 In8)
Kerby-Fulton, Kathryn, Maidie Hilmo and Linda Olson, Opening Up Middle English Manuscripts: Literary and Visual Approaches. Itaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012.
Middle-English Dictionary, containing words used by English writers from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, Francis Henry Stratmann; Henry Bradley, 1891. (HSSE Library 423 St8m)
Middle English Dictionary. Hans Kurath; Sherman M Kuhn (Sherman McAllister), 1952- (HSSE Library 423 K96m )
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (HSSE: Reference 920.042 D56 2004)
Oxford Companion to the Book (HSSE: Reference Z4 .O946 2010). Vol. 2 contains entries on many topics in book history and printing.
Parkes, M. B. English Cursive Book Hands, 1250-1500 (1969; reprint Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2004).
Roberts, Jane. Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500 (2005; re-issued London: British Library, 2011).
Twyman, Michael. The British Library Guide to Printing. University of Toronto Press, 1998.
The Bodleian Library: http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/bodley
The British Library: http://www.bl.uk/
The British Museum: http://www.britishmuseum.org/
University of Cambridge Digital Library: http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/
The Folger Shakespeare Library: http://www.folger.edu/
The Morgan Library & Museums: http://www.themorgan.org/
The Walter Art Museum: http://thewalters.org/