A few weeks ago there was some discussion on Book_Arts-L about this peculiar style of binding that seems to have been mostly applied in Ger...

This article continues part I. In his introduction to Adam’s Leitfaden für die Gesellen- und Meister-Prüfung im Buchbindergewerbe (1904)...

 While the trades were historically described in catechism-like works such as Friese's Ceremoniel der Buchbinder from 1712 (below), it ...