Few items in the home are as ubiquitous, and as unexamined, as the bindings around our books. We line books up on a shelf, pile them on the nightstand, arrange them for display on coffee tables. But ...

A new exhibition at the University of Chicago Library quickly dispels the notion that a book should not be judged by its cover. Walking into the gallery of the Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections ...

Luqman Azhar is a rare breed in the Malaysian old trades scene – a young man with a knack for breathing new life into antiquarian books. The 36-year-old avid reader and book collector turned his ...

Look around a bustling cafe in Harvard Square and you might see more people clutching Kindles and Nooks than paperbacks. In the age of digitization, e-books and e-readers are allowing for portable, ...

Those of you who have strayed through antiquarian bookshops will have, on occasion, chanced upon particularly unique-looking books. Perhaps a volume bound and covered in leather or vellum, as likely ...

Houghton Library celebrated the opening of a new exhibit, “InsideOUT Contemporary Bindings of Private Press Books,” at an event on Wednesday evening. Harvard Library officials also took the ...

In this two-day workshop, you will learn two essential bookbinding techniques: Link Stitch Binding and Hard Cover Case Binding. Gain foundational knowledge of bookbinding, familiarize yourself with ...

Time to dig up all that saved packaging that you couldn't bring yourself to get rid of because it was “so pretty” or a “really nice design” or had a “cool pattern” that you loved and so you put it ...

They say don't judge a book by its cover—but sometimes, just sometimes, you absolutely should. There are rare books where the design isn't just decoration, but a reflection of the world within. A ...