Links - 19th century publishing and bookselling, etc

Sites including Thomas Richardson & Son publications

• Revolution and Romanticism - a streetprint site - "from street ballads through chapbooks and tracts to valentines". Includes images of a ballad sheet published in 1836 by Thomas Richardson, Derby.
• Chapbooks - from www.booksandwriters.co.uk. List includes Thomas Richardson publications.
• The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature - timeline page includes reference to Thomas Richardson, Derby, and images from Richardson publications
• The Hockcliffe Project - Hockliffe Collection of early British children's books from the Polhill Library, University of Bedfordshire. Includes images of T. Richardson publications
• See also - on this site - list of a a selection of publications

General interest

• Chapbooks - from the Victoria and Albert Museum
• The Word on the Street - Broadsides at the National Library of Scotland
• KidPrint: A Collection of Children's Literature - a streetprint site - "a repository of popular British children's literature from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries."
• Database of Mid-Victorian wood-engraved Illustration - from Cardiff University
• Gallery of book trade labels - beautiful gallery of book labels from around the world
• Children's literature - from the Elizabeth Ball collection of children's books (Indiana University)

Bookbinding

• Aspects of the Victorian Book - from the British Library - including Publishers' bookbindings
• Database of bookbindings - from the British Library
• Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders and Book Designers - from Princeton University Library
• Hand bookbindings - from Princeton University Library
• Information on the craft and tradition of bookbinding - from bookbinding.co.uk
• Publishers' Bindings through the Decades - American bookbinding
• Scottish decorative bookbinding - from the National Library of Scotland
• Jaffray collection at the British Library - Jaffray was a bookbinder in Victorian London

Databases, etc

I found the following databases and indexes particularly useful:

• The British Book Trade Index - an index of the names and brief biographical details and trade details of people who worked in the book trade in England and Wales and who were trading by 1851. Searchable index.
• University of Liverpool library catalogue - a keyword search for "Richardson AND Derby", for example, brings up around 50 interesting titles.
• British Library Catalogue
• National Art Library - at the Victorian and Albert Museum - searchable database
• Internet archive - texts - Open-Access Text Archive - includes downloads of many out-of-copyright works
• Google books search - many 19th century out-of-copyright books viewable as full text