This collection of essays, published as the second volume of a series of studies on the history of bookbinding, sets a high standard for interesting and groundbreaking scholarship in the history of books.

• Cathleen A. Baker, Examination and Image-Capturing Techniques
• Thomas E. Conroy, Binding at Midcentury: The Rivers of AmericaCompetition of 1946
• Thomas E. Conroy, Bio-Bibliographical List of Individual Bookbinders (on DVD)
• Jim Croft, Finding Suitable Wood for Book Boards and Related Considerations (also on DVD)
• Julia Miller, Puzzle Me This: Early Binding Fragments in the Papyrology Collection of the University of Michigan Library (additional images on DVD)
• Rosa Scobey Moore, Finding Identity on the Endpapers: Folk Traditions of Writing and Drawing in Books
• Pamela J. Spitzmueller, A Visual Dictionary of Traditional Long- and Linkstitch Bookbinding Terminology

An accompanying DVD (included) contains additional photographs.