Books of Scraps
John Bagford, "Of Booke Binding Ancient" and 'Of Booke Binding Modourne" -- illustrated with inserted bits of leather bindings, specimens of title pages, alphabets, printers' and publishers' devices, maps, specimens of paper, many fragments are the only remaining of books destroyed; other scrapbooks concerning manuscripts by Bagford
Kitto's Bible, extra-illustrated with 30,000 prints, now at the Huntington: http://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1606678~S0
James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps
Add MS 65170 at British Library; "CHARLES BURNEY COLLECTION. Vol. IX. Sophocles: Testimonia and fragments, extracted from Brunck's edition; 1788, 1789. Printed extracts pasted into a book and lightly annotated. ff. i+277. 242 x 195mm.Richard Franz Philipp Brunck: Sophocles: Testimoni." Creation Date: 1788-1789. See http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/TourBurnMembra.asp
- both Halliwell-Phillips and Charles Burney were book thiefs
early modern printed fragments used to make limp binding at Add MS 57337*, BL
Alexander Shaw, 18th-century catalogue of tapas cloth containing letterpress-printed pages, followed by cloth samples: https://universityofglasgowlibrary.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/alexander-shaws-curious-cloth-catalogue/
Otto Frederick Ege, collection at the Reinecke -- broke apart early modern and medieval books and manuscripts to sell the leaves: http://www.finebooksmagazine.com/press/2015/11/yales-beinecke-library-acquires-trove-of-medieval-manuscripts-that-belonged-to-noted-book-breaker.phtml?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+InThePress-FBC+%28In+The+Press+-+Fine+Books+%26+Collections%29; see his essay "I am a biblioclast," Avocations (March 1938)
Philip Hanrott, allowed his three children to cut out decorative elements in medieval manuscripts and paste them into scrapbooks; see Rickert, Reconstructed Carmelite Missal
John Ruskin
Burckhardt-Wildt album
J. G. Ballard, cut-up novels: http://www.bl.uk/collection-items/text-collages-by-j-g-ballard-c-1958