A select bibliography from Elizabeth Yale of suggested further readings related to the history of paper engineering and technologies. Links to University of Iowa Libraries resources and others are included where available.
- Barton, Jeff. “Cotsen Research Projects: Lothar Meggendorfer’s Mechanical Books.” https://blogs.princeton.edu/cotsen/2012/10/beginning-in-the-1970s/
- Carlino, Andrea. Paper Bodies: A Catalogue of Anatomical Fugitive Sheets, 1538 –1687. Trans. Noga Arikha. Medical History 43, Supplement 19 (1999).
- Cuthell, Edith E. “Where the Christmas Cards Are Made.” Hearth and Home 14.346 (30 Dec. 1897), 334.
- Faden, Eric. 2007. “Movables, Movies, Mobility: Nineteenth‐century Looking and Reading.” Early Popular Visual Culture 5 (1): 71–89.
- Field, Hannah. Playing with the Book: Victorian Movable Picture Books and the Child Reader. University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
- Finucci, Valeria and Maurizio Rippa-Bonati with the assistance of Rachel Ingold and Meg Brown. “Animated Anatomies: The Human Body in Anatomical Texts from the 16th to the 21st Centuries.” https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/anatomy/intro
- Haining, Peter. Movable Books: An Illustrated History: Pages & Pictures of Folding, Revolving, Dissolving, Mechanical, Scenic, Panoramic, Dimensional, Changing, Pop-up and Other Novelty Books from the Collection of David and Briar Philips. New English Library, 1979.
- Helfand, Jessica. Reinventing the Wheel. Princeton Architectural Press, 2002.
- Hoiem, Elizabeth Massa. The Education of Things: Mechanical Literacy in British Children’s Literature, 1762-1860. University of Massachusetts Press, 2024.
- Karr Schmidt, Suzanne. Interactive and Sculptural Printmaking in the Renaissance. Brill, 2018.
- Kusukawa, Sachiko. Picturing the Book of Nature: Image, Text, and Argument in Sixteenth-Century Human Anatomy and Medical Botany. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- Sperling, Juliet. “Unfolding Metamorphosis, or the Early American Tactile Image.” American Art 35 (2021): 58–87.
- Weimer, David. “To Touch a Sighted World: Tactile Maps in the Early Nineteenth Century.” Winterthur Portfolio 51, no. 2/3 (2017): 135–58.