This is hugely detailed description of most current practice in craft bookbinding. There are better texts on the history and development of bookbinding, and there are a few recent techniques that aren't mentioned, but if you wish to learn bookbinding then this is the place to start.

As other reviewers have noted, it's not a "home craft" book (or at least, only for the very serious). This is a book for students (in any sense of the word) who are prepared to put serious effort into learning a craft.

The text style, and the quality and degree of illustration, is excellent. This is just how a teaching manual for a craft technique should be written and produced.


ISBN 0500680116