The object of this book is to make available in an easily accessible form some splendid articles on key elements essential to fine bookbindings, the majority of which have lain hidden in obscure publications for too long, and two specifically written and illustrated for this book. 

Fine bookbinding : points of note -- Notes on the hand sewing of books -- Further notes on the hand sewing of books -- Engraving for decoration of fine bindings -- The supported french groove -- The trade versus the rest -- Letter to the editor : craft bookbinding -- Notes on craft bookbinding in Paris -- Fine bindings : the present and the future -- Controversial thoughts on the decoration of fine bindings -- The art of covering with leather part 1 -- The art of covering with leather part 2 -- Two bookbinding exhibitions: abstract motif in Irish work -- He was a good man and a friend to all (Thomas Harrison) -- Book review : American bindings of the finest quality -- A rare bookbinding manual -- Fine bindings : a craft and its craftsmen -- Book review : Modern design in bookbinding -- Facsimile printing -- Old vs new : a division of interest -- Sixty years of progress and decline 

Signed by Bernard C. Middleton.