art prints
graphic art, often of artistic standard, reproduced using print technology
artists’ book
a stand-alone work of art realized in the form of a book which is intended to be readable unlike a book art object
Arts and Crafts Movement
a design movement that began in England in around 1880 lasting until about 1920, which reunited art and handicrafts
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange, originally arising as a teleprinter coding of characters by means of numbers
Asian printing techniques
printing techniques that contain the great diversity of Chinese, Japanese and Korean writing and their paper quality
assignats
paper money from the time of the French Revolution, originally covered by confiscated church property, later devalued by inflation
Assyriology
a field within Oriental studies which deals with the culture and history of the Middle East, principally on the basis of cuneiform script documents
atlas
compilation of thematically related illustrated panels, geographic or thematic maps
auction
sales auction in which the price is established by increasing bids or by decreasing the price and is then fixed by the fall of the hammer
auction catalogue
index of objects on offer for public sale at auction with precise descriptions and estimates of the price
