The following bibliographical abbreviations are used:
List of Abbreviations
| BAB | British Armorial Bindings Database |
| CSEL | Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum |
| ISTC | Incunabula Short Title Catalogue |
| Gibson | S. Gibson, Early Oxford Bindings (Oxford, 1903) |
| Ker, Pastedowns | N. R. Ker, Pastedowns in Oxford Bindings, reprinted with corrigenda and addenda by D. Rundle and S. Mandelbrote (Oxford, 2004) |
| MLGB3 | Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, 3rd edition, on-line |
| Oldham, Blind-Stamped | J. B. Oldham, English Blind-Stamped Bindings (Cambridge, 1952) |
| Oldham, Panels | J. B. Oldham, Blind Panels of English Binders (Cambridge, 1958) |
| Pearson, 'Cambridge' | D. Pearson, 'Bookbinding in Cambridge in the second half of the sixteenth century' in id. ed., 'For the Love of the Binding'. Studies in bookbinding history presented to Mirjam Foot (London, 2000), pp. 169-96 |
| Pearson, Oxford | D. Pearson, Oxford Book-binding, 1500-1640 (Oxford, 2000) |
| TCBS | Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society |
| USTC | Universal Short-Title Catalogue |
| Venn, AC | J. and J. A. Venn, Alumni Cantabrigienses, part i, 4 vols (Cambridge, 1922-27) |