Topics include book design, materials, working procedures, papers, leather bindings and book repair. Techniques and procedures are accompanied by diagrams and black-and-white photographs.
This is a 1990 reprint, published by Dover Publications, New York, of the 1973 edition. Minor corrections have been made to typos and supply lists. Originally published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1964, c1963. Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-258) and index.