Description96 p. : color illus. Contents: Anne Bromer on irresistible books / Anne Bromer, James Reid-Cunningham, Christina Amato. Sewn board bookbinding more than a thousand years later / Gary Frost. Unique mathematics: books from a lost tradition / Nerida F. Ellerton, McKenzie A. Clements. The Folger phase box: a visible spine wrapper / J. Franklin Mowery, Sonja Jordan-Mowery. A curator's thought on the book as an artifact / Jane Rodgers Siegel. The first author / Benjamin R. Doster. The Harcourt Bindery: early leather bindings, 1900-1910 / Sam Ellenport. Paper images for paper ;books: digitally cut illustrations from handmade paper in artists' books / Tatiana Ginsberg. Printed by a woman: the Declaration of Independence in the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries / Mindy Belloff..