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The Museum's Library of Books as Artefacts aims to provide users of the Access Studio, and others interested in book design, with thousands of examples of books produced with various combinations of paper, typeface, spacing, pictorial methods, binding and other variables.

Books to be included are generally selected not for who wrote them, or their subject, but for who printed them and how they were printed and bound.

The collection includes books printed by many of the world's leading book printers, and probably all of the main book printers of Australia.

Wolf Ear the Indian was printed by the publisher, Cassell & Co., at their works La Belle Sauvage in London around 1915. It appears to have been typeset by hand.

Wealth and Income, a financial analysis, was published by MUP and printed by Brown, Prior, Anderson in Melbourne in 1955. It appears to be composed on the Linotype system. It contains many intricate tables and formulae: the Monotype system is particularly versatile with such, but on this occasion Linotype slugs were used, it seems.

Enid Blyton's Third Brer Rabbit Book, Special Australian Edition, was published by Angus and Robertson and printed in Sydney by Halstead Press. The colophon reveals that it was set in Linotype Caledonia (typeface).