Hardcover, includes jacket. Includes a preface, plates, selected bibliography, notes, index, and appendices. Chapters: Historical Introduction; Women Trade Binders at the End of the 19th Century; Embroidered Bookbindings; Modelled Leather Bindings, and Pokerwork; Sarah Treverbian Prideaux; Frank Karslake and the Guild of Women Binders; Katharine Adams; Sybil Pye; Pupils, and Other Women Bookbinders; Women Binders in America and Elsewhere Abroad.