Several years ago I was able to acquire the German Bookbinders' Guild membership book of a certain Ludwig Schaible. Herr Schaible was bo...

The Chorus by William Hogarth, ca.1850  German Bookbinder's Song of 1842. Who can be more contented, With life as ‘tis. presente...

Spent the equivalent of a few fruitful days weeding and shifting my bookbinding/book arts reference collection so that I have _some_ space...

Great little German video by Marcel Ernst about bookbinding thematically based on Die Sendung mit Der Maus , a WDR show for kids that expla...

From Paul Kersten's Die Buchbinderei und das Zeichnen des Buchbinders ... (Halle a.d. Saale, 1909), plate 1. An odd looking too...

Seen on the QEW ( Queen Elizabeth Way ) leaving Toronto, Canada on the way home this afternoon... One of the most hideous highways I have ha...

This article first appeared in the Guild of Book Workers' Journal, Volume XX, 1981-82. It is reprinted here with the permission of the ...