Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Bibliography; Bookbindings; Manuscripts and Proof-reading; Paper and Watermarks; Printers and Printing; Title-pages; Authors, Editors and Illustrators; Advertisements, End-papers, Ownership Marks, Dedications, Indexes and Book-jackets; Cancels, piracies, Ghosts and Forgeries; Illustrations; Publishers and Bookselling; Contents and Subject Matter; Conclusion; The Care of Books; Appendixes (General Bibliography; Glossary; Landmarks in the History of Book Production; Who's Who and What's What; Notes on the Plates); Index.