| | Year | | Event | Keyword |
| | 1934 | | the first bookseller's catalogue devoted exclusively to detective | DETECTIVE AND MYSTERY |
| | fiction as a collecting specialty. According to Otto Penzler, in his |
| | "Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection," this was the 1934 |
| | catalogue of London dealer |
| | George Bates entitled "Murder--Catalogue the Seventh of Rare and |
| | Interesting Books Illustrating the Development of the Detective and |
| | Mystery Story." |
| | 1935 | | Rogers. Oxford Lectern Bible printed by Bruce Rogers with his | ROGERS, BRUCE |
| | Centaur type |
| | 1935 | | Nazis. Book burning | BOOKBURNING |
| | 1935 | | Dolphinn, The, American journal about the making of books, | DOLPHIN |
| | published until 1941 |
| | 1936 | | Rampant lions Press' first book, Robert Nichols' A Spanish Triptych, | RAMPANT LION |
| | published. Press was founded by Will Carter |
| | 1936 | | Corvinus Press founded by Viscount Carlow | CORVINUS PRESS |
| | 1937 | | Maillol. Les Pastorales ou Daphnis et Chloe with woodcuts by | MAILLOL |
| | Aristide Maillol |
| | 1942 | | International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) founded | ILAB |
| | 1943 | | High House Press closed (founded in 1924 by James Masters) | HIGH HOUSE PRESS |
| | 1944 | | Bremer Presse destroyed by bombing. | BREMER PRESSE |
| | 1944 | | Xerography (Xerox copies) invented. | XEROGRAPHY |
| | 1945 | | Dropmore Press acquires equipment Corvinus Press | DROPMORE PRESS |
| | 1945 | | Dropmore Press founded by Lord Kermsley, London | DROPMORE |
| | 1949 | | Peregrine Press by Henry Evans, San Francisco | PEREGRINE PRESS |
| | 1951 | | Iowa State University Library erected | IOWA STATE LIBRARY |
| | 1952 | | Copyright. World Copyright Union founded in Geneva | COPYRIGHT |
| | 1953 | | Lurs. Ecole de lure, annual international graphic arts retreat initiated | LURS |
| | by Maximilien Vox at Lurs-en-Provence |
| | 1953 | | Lion and Unicorn Press by students of the Royal College of Art, | LION AND UNICORN |
| | 1954 | | Elzevier. Publication of 'The world of the Elzevirs' by D.W.Davies | ELZEVIER |
| | 1955 | | Dry Coated paper developed at the Battlefield Memorial Institute, | BINDING |
| | Columbia |
| | 1955 | | Dry Coated paper developed at the Battlefield Memorial Institute, | PAPER |
| | Columbia |
| | 1955 | | Dry Coated paper developed at the Battlefield Memorial Institute, | DRY COATED |
| | Columbia |
| | 1956 | | Rank-Xerox company founded | RANK |
| | 1960 | | Third International Congress of Plastic Arts in Vienna made an | ORIGINAL PRINTS |
| | outline proposal drawn op in five paragraphs offering a precise |
| | definition of an original print. |
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