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The Museum of Applied Arts’ 4500-volume book art collection is unique in the country for collecting books according to the historical significance of their binding, illustrations and typography, and for regarding its holdings as art works.

Book - Petrus Lombardus: Glossa magistralis psalterii. Nuremberg, 1475-1476
Manuscript bound into a book - Book of hours, „prayer book of Lodovico Gonzaga”
Manuscript bound into a book - Book of hours
Book - Guevara, Antonio de: Fejedelmeknek serkentő órája. Transl. Prágai András. Bardejov, 1628. (Binding made for Catherine of Brandenburg)
Book - Poems of Koronghi Lippich, Elek. Budapest, 1903
Book - Bricka, Karl Frederik: Kong Frederik den andens ungdomskjaerlighed. Koppenhága, 1873
Book - Die Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1928. Modernes Kunstgewerbe und sein Weg. Wien 1929
Artist's book with slipcase - Weöres, Sándor: Towards completeness
Book - Szana, Tamás: Petőfiné Szendrey Júlia. Budapest, 1891
Book - Dankó, József: Vetus hymnarium ecclesiasticum Hungariae. Budapest, 1893
Ornamental album - with photos of the works and diplomas of the Gottermeyer workshop
Book in 'a la fanfare' binding - Quarré, Jean-Hugues: Le riche charitable. Brussels, 1653
Book - Field, Michael: Fair Rosamund. h. n., é. n.
Book - Fables d'Esope. Paris, 1913
Book with slipcase - Eckartshausen, Karl von: Gott ist die reinste Liebe... Vienna, 1793
Artist's book - Old Hungarian 'Lamentations of Mary' (the oldest extant Hungarian poem)
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