Finally, here is the definitive glossary of the book, offering readers all the terms they will need for thorough understanding of how books are made, the materials they are made of, and how they are described in the bookselling, book collecting, and library worlds. Every key term --- over 1,300 different words --- that could be used in booksellers’ catalogs, library records, and collectors’ descriptions of their holdings is represented in this dictionary. This authoritative source covers all areas of book knowledge: the book as physical object, typeface terminology, paper, printing, book collecting, book design, bibliography, calligraphy, t he language of manuscripts, writing implements, librarianship, legal issues, the parts of a book, and much more. The definitions are supplemented by more than 100 illustrations showing the book as a physical object: parts of books, kinds of illustrations, kinds of printing techniques, tools that librarians, booksellers, and collectors refer to that are used in the making of books, kinds of binding structures and decoration, kinds of paper decoration, and other things.

First English translation of the unique description of Japanese marbler Tokutaro Yagi's specific techniques for suminagashi-zome or "floating ink," the art of marbling on paper or silk by floating color--usually black, red, or blue-- on water and making it spread with a lacquer surfactant to form jagged flowing lines, often resulting in patterns from nature such as wood grains, water currents, or wind patterns in a rice field.

Vol. 1- includes section "Biblia, devoted to the interests of the Friends of the Princeton Library," v. 11-