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The History of the Greenwood Press and Bibliography, 1934-2000, by Jack Werner Stauffacher, 1999 2000-04
The Holkham Bible Picture Book, by W.O. Hassall, in two editions, 1954 1954-03
The Holy Bible, with 105 woodcuts by Bernard Salomon. Three volumes, 1963 1964-01
The House of Forgery in Eighteenth-Century Britain, by Paul Baines, 1999 2001-01
The Hunting of the Snark, an Agony in Nine Fits, by Lewis Carroll, 1993 1996-01
The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili of 1499, by Francesco Colonna. Facsimile with an introduction by George Painter. 315 copies, 1963 1964-01
The Illustrated Dust Jacket 1920-1970, Martin Salisbury, Thames & Hudson, 2017 2018-01
The Illustrated Gift Book 1880-1930, with a Checklist, by Michael Felmingham, 1988 1989-01
The Illustration of Robinson Crusoe 1719-1920, by David Blewett, 1995 1996-03
The Illustrators of Children's Books and Postcards 1900-1950, by Dawn and Peter Cope, 2000 2002-02
The Image of Restoration Science, Michael Hunter, Rouledge 2017 2017-04
The Invention of News: How the World Came to Know About Itself, by Andrew Pettegree, 2014 2015-01
The Italian Book 1465-1800, Studies Presented to Dennis E. Rhodes, edited by Denis Reidy, 1993 1994-04
The Journal of Beatrix Potter 1881-1897, Complete Edition, New Foreword by Judy Taylor. New edition, 1989 1992-04
The Kelmscott Chaucer: a Census, by William S. Peterson & Sylvia Holton Peterson, 2011 2012-01
The Kelmscott Press, a History, by William S. Peterson, 1991 1992-02
The Kilgour Collection of Russian Literature, 1750-1920: with Notes...compiled by C-ess Stenbock-Fermor and W.B. Todd, 1959 1959-02
The King of the Golden River, by John Ruskin, with an Essay by James S. Dearden, 1999 2001-01
The Ladybird Story: Children's Books for Everyone, by Lorraine Johnson and Brian Alderson, 2014 2015-03
The Laird's Kitchin: Three Hundred Years of Food in Scotland, by Oliver M. Geddes, 1994 1995-03
The Last Years of Mary Queen of Scots: Documents from the Cecil Papers at Hatfield House, edited by Alan Smith, 1990 1994-02
The Latin Manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library, by M.R. James. Repr. 1980, 2 volumes in 1 1982-04
The Libraries of Greater London, by L.M.Harrod, [1952] 1952-01
The Library and Reading of Jonathan Swift, Pt 1, Swift's Library, by Dirk F. Passmann and Heinz J. Vienken, 2003 2007-01
The Library of a Jesuit Community at Holbeck, Nottinghamshire, by Hendrik Dijkgraaf, 2003 2004-03
The Library of Anthony Wood, by Nicolas K. Kiessling, 2002 2004-03
The Library of Aristotle: he Most Important Collection Ever Formed, K.Sp. Staikos, Oak Knoll/ Aton, 2016 2018-01
The Library of Edward Gibbon, A Catalogue Edited...by Geoffrey Keynes Kt. 2nd Edition, [1980] 1982-02
The Library of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1584-1637, by Sargent Bush Jr. and Carl Rasmussen, 1987 1988-03
The Library of Isaac Newton, by John Harrison, 1978 1980-04
The Library of James Logan of Philadelphia, 1674-1791, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 1974 1979-02
The Library of John Morris: The Reconstruction of a Seventeenth-Century Collection, by T.A. Birrell, 1976 1977-03
The Library of John Ruskin, by James S. Dearden, 2012 2013-03
The Library of Leander van Ess at the Burke Library of Union Theological Seminary, N.Y., edited by Milton McC. Gatch, 1996 1998-01
The Library of Richard Porson, by Paul Naiditch, 2011 2012-02
The Library of Robert Burton, by Nicolas K. Kiessling, 1988 1989-04
The Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst Place circa 1665, edited by Germaine Warkentin and others, 2013 2015-04
The Library of William Byrd of Westover, by Kevin J. Hayes, 1996 1998-04
The Library, Fifth Series, Vol. VIII, 1953 1954-01
The Library: a Fragile History 2021, Andrew Pettegree & Arthur der Weduwen 2021-04