American Printing History Association. Encourages the study of printing history and its related arts and skills, including calligraphy, typefounding, typography, papermaking, bookbinding, illustration, and publishing. APHA is especially, but by no means exclusively, interested in American printing history.

American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. An interdisciplinary group dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in all aspects of the period, from the later seventeenth through the early nineteenth century.

Hibolire: The Nordic-Baltic-Russian Network on the History of Books, Libraries and Reading.A network of scholars in the fields of book history, history of libraries and history of reading.

Printing Historical Society, London. Fosters interest in the history of printing and encourages both the study and the preservation of printing machinery, records, and equipment of historical value.

Society for Book Research in Austria. Promotes in-depth research on the book trade in Austria and co-ordinates study in the field, keeping a running bibliography of new publications and points to deficits in book history scholarship.

William Morris Society. Aims to make the life and work of Morris and his associates better known.

Bibliographical Society of America. The oldest scholarly society in North America dedicated to the study of books and manuscripts as physical objects.

Bibliographical Society (Great Britain). Promotes and encouragesstudy and research in historical, analytical, descriptive and textual bibliography, the history of printing, publishing, bookselling, bookbinding and collecting.

Bibliographical Society of Canada.Its goal is the scholarly study of the history, description, and transmission of texts in all media and formats, with a primary emphasis on Canada.

Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand.Focuses on all the studies related to physical bibliography: the history of printing, publishing, bookselling, typefounding, papermaking, bookbinding; palaeography and codicology; and textual bibliography.

Bibliographical Society, University of Virginia.Promotes interest in books and manuscripts, maps, printing, the graphic arts, and bibliography and textual criticism.

American Historical Print Collectors Society. Encourages the collection, preservation, study, and exhibition of original historical American prints that are 100 or more years old.

The Grolier Club. America's oldest and largest society for bibliophiles and enthusiasts in the graphic arts.

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP). Dedicated to the study of the world's first mechanized "mass" press--newspapers, magazines, and other serial publications--in 19th-century Britain and its Empire.

Dutch Museum of the Book (Museum Meermanno) catalogue. The museum's collections include collection: books, coins and medals, letters, and manuscripts dealing with book design, bookplates and small prints. The catalogue is searchable online.

Printing Museum, Tokyo. Its primary objective is to explain the value and potential of printing as a form of communications media, and deepen the general public's understanding and interest in printing.

Briar Press: A Letterpress Community. A community of printers and artists dedicated to the preservation of letterpress.

SHARP-L. The discussion group of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing

Women Printers and Booksellers: A Checklist of Sources. Laura Sue Fuderer

NYPL Research Guide to the History of Books and Printing. Bibliography