Making Handmade Books: 100+ Bindings, Structures & Forms

Although written 14 years ago and a combination of an even early book with added new sections, this book is a welcome addition to a bookmaker's library. The book has lots of step by step instructions and diagrams, with many photos of the finished books and a comprehensive section about various covers. I am very happy with my purchase of this book.

So much information, so many ideas. Whether you want to just make a book or learn more about book-making, an excellent buy

沢山の作品が載っているので、「こんな方法があるんだ！」とか「こんな本を作ってみたい！」と、イメージが膨らみます。私はこの本を購入してから、手製本作りがとても楽しくなりました。ただし、本の作り方についてはあっさりとしか書かれていないので、手製本中級者以上にお勧めです。例えば、和本の仕立て方でも外国人がデザインすると随分雰囲気が変わるので、自分の製本へのイメージが打ち破られた気がしました。

Un livre vraiment bien fait, pas besoin de connaitre l'anglais. Il va au dela de mes attentes. Plein de jolies reliures différentes le tout hyper bien expliqué avec toutes les étapes bien détaillées. Il y a même de quoi faire boites, enveloppes etc..pour conserver les livres. Un ouvrage complet que je ne lasse pas de feuilleter!!

It is great for artistic inspiration but as book binding manual there is not that much to work with. Most projects are more artistic books or pamphlet style books rather than useful notepads. Also more for artists to showcase their work or to do with kids but not for creating notepads or traditional book binding techniques. If you are looking for inspiration then a great book but for my purposes (bookbinding for notepads) it was not useful.