Originally published in 1903, to include over 150 figures, this classic work on bookbinding covers: tools and appliances, materials, folding, placing plates, beating and pressing books, sawing and sewing, affixing end-papers, rounding and backing, getting into boards, cutting and beveling in boards, coloring edges, gilding edges, materials for marbling edges, headbands and registers, lining the back, covering, marbling and coloring leather, plain finishing, half and full gilt finishing, antique or monastic finishing, whole-bound finishing, conclusion and index.