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1986

Division I :
J. Paul Getty Museum (in association with The British Library).
Renaissance Painting in Manuscripts: Treasures from the British Library.
J. Backhouse, M. Evans, T. Kren, and M. Orth; edited by T. Kren; introduction by D.H. Turner. 1983.

Division II :
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library.
The Survivors: An Exhibition of Rare Russian Books.
M. Choldin. 1985.

Division III (tie) :
Harvard University (Houghton Library).
He Has Long Outlived His Century: The 200th Anniversary of Johnson's Death.
H. Amory. 1984.

Pierpont Morgan Library.
The Mikado: A Centenary Celebration.
R. Allen and F.W. Wilson. 1985.


1987

Division I :
Brown University (John Carter Brown Library).
Liberty of Conscience and the Growth of Religious Diversity in Early America, 1636-1786
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C.G. Pestana; foreword by M.E. Marty; bibliographical supplement by H.R. Costa. 1986.

Division II :
Harvard College (Houghton Library).
Marks in Books.
R.E. Stoddard. 1985.

Division III :
University of Michigan Library (Department of Rare Books and Special Collections).
Patriots and Orangists: Revolutionary Pamphlets and Caricatures in the Netherlands, 1780-1800.
A. van den Berg and K. Vandersypen. 1986.


1988

Division I (tie) :
Folger Shakespeare Library.
Time: The Greatest Innovator: Timekeeping and Time Consciousness in Early Modern Europe.
R. Doggett. 1986.

Library Company of Philadelphia and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
The Larder Invaded: Reflections on Three Centuries of Philadelphia Food and Drink.
M.A. Hines, G. Marshall, and W.W. Weaver. Together with Thirty-Five Receipts from "The Larder Invaded." W.W. Weaver. 1986.

Division II :
Rosenbach Museum and Library.
Marianne Moore: Vision into Verse.
P.C. Willis. 1987.

Division III :
Harvard University (Harvard Law School Library).
The Virgin & the Witch: An Exhibition at the Harvard Law School Library of Materials from the Hyde Collection and Harvard Libraries on the Celebrated Trial of Elizabeth Canning.
H. Amory. 1987.


1989

Division I :
Indiana University (Lilly Library).
For Your Amusement & Instruction: The Elisabeth Ball Collection of Historical Children's Materials.
E.L. Johnson. 1987.

Division II :
Franklin and Marshall College (College Collections).
Fraktur: A Selective Guide to the Franklin and Marshall Fraktur Collection.
C.E. Faill, C.C. Bentzell, and R.G. Mickey. 1987.

Division III (tie) :
Carnegie Mellon University (Hunt Library).
Sixty-Five Years of Fine Printing at Carnegie.
E.A. Fisher, Jr., and M.C. Johnsen. 1988.

Yale University (Sterling Memorial Library).
Eccentric Books: An Exhibition.
G. Walker. 1988.


1990

Division I (tie) :
Stanford University (Green Library).
Poetry and Revolution in Russia, 1905-1930.

L. Fleishman. 1989.

Walters Art Museum.
Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life.
R.S. Wieck. 1988.

Division II :
Yale University (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library).
The Medieval Book.
B.A. Shailor. 1988.

Division III :
Southern Methodist University (DeGolyer Library).
Motoring Tourists and the Scenic West, 1903-1948.
M. Vinson. 1989.

Special Award of Merit :
University of Toronto (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library).
The Black Art: An Exhibition of British Private Press Books.
University of Toronto. 1983.
Padlocked!: An Exhibition of Czech and Slovak Independent Writings.
University of Toronto. 1988.
The Curwen Press, 1863-1984: An Exhibition.
University of Toronto. 1987.
1789, Année de la Liberté: An Exhibition of Books, Pamphlets, Plays and Other Materials.
University of Toronto. 1989.


1991

Division I :
Harvard University (Houghton Library).
The Work of Stephen Harvard: A Life in Letters.
D.P. Becker. 1990.

Division II :
Linda Hall Library.
The Face of the Moon: Galileo to Apollo.
W.B. Ashworth, Jr. 1989.

Division III :
University of Toronto (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library).
Fifteenth Century Italian Woodcuts from the Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna.

R. Healey. 1989.


1992

Division I :
University of Maryland (McKeldin Library).
Katherine Anne Porter at One Hundred: New Perspectives.
B.T. Ebeling-Koning. 1991.

Division II :
University of Toronto (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library).
Eric Gill: His Life and Art.
A. Horne, R. Landon, and G. Upjohn. 1991.

Division III :
University of Virginia.
From Palm to Pine: Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936.
M.K. Abraham and C. McCutchan. 1990.


1993

Division I :
Brown University (John Carter Brown Library).
Encountering the New World.

S. Danforth. 1991.

Division II :
University of Toronto (Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library).
Evolution of the Heart.
H. Averill, R. Blackburn, A. Jocz, and Garron Wells. 1992.

Division III :
National Archives.
Ties that Bind: Communities in American History.
L.B. Auel. 1992.

Special Award of Merit :
University of Chicago.
The University of Chicago Faculty: A Centennial View.
Frank Yoder. 1991.
Life on the Quads: A Centennial View of the Student Experience at the University of Chicago.
Ronald J. Kim. 1992.
The University and the City: A Centennial View of the University of Chicago.
Daniel Meyer. 1992.
The Presidents of the University of Chicago: A Centennial View.
Richard L. Popp. 1992.


1994

Division I :
Yale University (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library).
Reconstructing a Medieval Library: Fragments from Lambach.
R.G. Babcock. 1993.

Division II :
University of Pennsylvania (Van Pelt-Dietrich Library, Department of Special Collections).
Human Documents: Tom Phillips's Art of the Page.
D. Traister; preface by M.A. Sackner. 1993.

Division III :
University of Chicago Library (Special Collections).
Picturing Britain: Time and Place in Image and Text, 1700-1850.
K. Haskins. 1993.


1995

Division I :
Harverd University (Harvard Law School Library).
History in Deed: Medieval Society and the Law in England, 1100-1600.
C. Symes; introduction by C. Donahue. 1993.

Division III :
Harvard University (Houghton Library, Department of Printing and Graphic Arts).
Eric Gill: The Cell of Good Living.
Margaret Smith. 1994.

Special Award of Merit :
Huntington Library.
The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America.
J.H. Rhodehamel and T.F. Schwartz; foreword by J.M. McPherson. 1993.