Special Collections and Archive

The Florence Walter  Collection

This is a subject collection of over 300 books and journals on bookbinding and paper. Books include surveys on the history and technique of bookbinding, studies of individual bookbinders, and exhibition and auction catalogs. Also present are many of Dard Hunter’s books on papermaking, specimen books of Japanese paper (washi), marbled and other decorative papers, and a run of Bookbinding and Book Production (1938–1952) and The New Bookbinder (1981–present).

(call number = Walter)