Making Handmade Books. While traditional paper-book publishing declines, personal paper-book making ascends. Books have gone ...

The Library Company notes that the bindings “appeared on American books only briefly — around 1850-55 — a time of increasingly elaborate book cover decoration.” The use of inlaid shell on books wasn’t ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals. Researchers identified its more distant origin. By Jack Tamisiea Medieval scribes ...

Based in part on materials in the William L. Clements Library. "Glossary": pages [433]-500. Books Will Speak Plain is published at a time when the historical book is at risk of being ignored, put away ...