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Dollar sign, denoting ‘all the signatures’; used in collational formulas with a figure indicating number of signed leaves per gathering in a book.

 (1906–96) Dutch publisher

who established his company in South Africa in 1946. His list included belles-lettres (sold to Human & Rousseau in 1962) and non-fiction (natural and...

 (1900–1973) Dutch publisher.

A major representative of the new Dutch typographic style, Stols combined his commercial publishing activities with fine printing at his private...

(1863–1940),

Philadelphia book collector, whose charming writings in a manner resembling that of the 18th-century essayists are primarily concerned with his avocation. These...

 (1884–1972) Type design historian and British Museum librarian (see british library).

Johnson was a pioneer in 16^th-century French and Italian bibliography, with special reference...

Pioneering New Zealand firm founded (1911) by Sir Alfred Hamish Reed.

Nurtured by Reed and his nephew Alexander Wyclif Reed, it was the largest publisher in Australasia by the late...

 (1860–1927) Creator of the Palmer Method,

the most common form of penmanship instruction in 20^th-century America. Palmer trained in New Hampshire with George A. Gaskell in the...

As librarian of King's College, Cambridge (1947–74), he developed a centre of modern literary archives. Munby focused on 19th-century bookselling and bibliophily; his major work was the...

 (1919– ) A Church of Scotland minister,

he began using computers in stylistic analysis of New Testament texts in 1959. In 1963, he pronounced that of the epistles attributed to St...

 (1922– ) British scholar of wide bibliographical interests and the son of G. Hobson,

he is best known as a historian of bookbinding, particularly for his sequence of studies of...