More recently, several useful, but limited, bibliographies have appeared.
The bibliographical resources, however, which the historian of these sub jects has at his disposal correspond hardly at all to the essentially inter national character of the object of his studies.. Their history should be assessed and studied primarily in an international, not in a local, context. ABHB Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries There are, indeed, few historical developments which have played a more universal role, in reaction against all kinds of particularism, than type design, printing, book production, publishing, illustration, binding, librarianship, journal ism, and related subjects.