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Bill Bell, ed. The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland. Vol. 3, Ambition and Industry, 1800-1880. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007. 542 pp.; 105.00 £ ISBN 9780748617791 Reading this [...]

Andrea Krupp. Bookcloth in England and America, 1823-50. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press / Bibliographical Society of America; London: The British Library, 2008. 102 pp.; US $35.00 ISBN 9781584562139 [...]

Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. xi, 486 pp.; $55.00 (hardcover) ISBN 0 8020 4339 9; $34.95 (paperbound). ISBN 0 8020 8159 2. Carter, the editor of this compilation of [...]

Willman Spawn and Thomas E. Kinsella. American Signed Bindings Through 1876. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press / Bryn Mawr College Library, 2007. 300 pp.; US $85.00 ISBN 9781584562085 Discovering [...]

What can current students preparing for careers as librarians, archivists and museum curators learn from the book as object and the book as art? How can artists’ books and artisans engaged in bookmaking, conservation and curating books inform our ideas of the book as more than its text? How does bookmaking deepen the connection for students between content and form? This article describes a 6-week workshop conducted at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto that explores the book from its earliest forms to artists’ books and includes many descriptions of books constructed by iSchool students. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]