Design · Craft & Applied Design
A topic within Craft & Applied Design, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Design.
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Douglas Cockerell
A practical manual arguing that durable bookbinding rests on sound structural methods — sewing, board attachment, forwarding — that predate and outlast decorative finishing.
link checked 17 Sept 2026T. J. Cobden-Sanderson
Argues that a beautiful book is one whose every element — type, margin, paper and ornament — is subordinated to the legible communication of its text, rather than treated as an occasion for decoration.