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Text © 2019 Center for Book Arts

First published in 2019 by Rockport Publishers, an imprint of The Quarto Group, 100 Cummings Center, Suite 265-D, Beverly, MA 01915, USA.
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Digital edition: 978-1-63159-606-3
Hardcover edition: 978-1-63159-605-6

Digital edition published in 2019

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Center for Book Arts (New York, N.Y.)

Bookforms : a complete guide to designing and crafting hand-bound books / from The Center for Book Arts.

ISBN 9781631596056 (paper over board)

Bookbinding--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

LCC Z271 .B728 2019 | DDC 686.3--dc23

2018032488

Cover and page design: Landers Miller Design
Page layout: Megan Jones Design
Photography: Christina Bohn Photography, unless otherwise noted
Illustration: Ada Keesler, @adagracee