- Boxes 23-24.
- File
- [c.1900]-1960.
Twelve albums compiled by Anthony Birdsall, containing cuttings from catalogues and other publications, extensive notes and related correspondence, all on various aspects of book manufacture and binding:. File I: Some three hundred numbered photographs of Birdsall bindings, corresponding to the photographs in boxes 18-19. File II: Photographs of book boxes and pre-19th century bookbindings. File III: Engravers' marks and watermarks. File IV: Leather, including samples and notes on conservation. File V: Photographs of illuminations from manuscripts and early printed books, mainly of English provenance. File V: Notes and printed material on bookbindings. Files VI-VII: Historical bindings; headbands. Files VIII-IX: Notes on collations of old printed books, perhaps compiled when repairing or rebinding them. File X: Articles and technical notes on the repair of damaged books, including recipes for various preparations used. File XI: Bibles; technical notes on commissions executed. File XII: Notes on the history of books and bookbinding.