Three octavo volumes, each with engraved frontispieces and titles printed in red and black, illustrated as follows, I: eighteen plates; II: seventeen plates; III: eleven plates; bound in uniform contemporary half sheepskin bindings with speckled paper boards; the third volume with thirty-two blank leaves bound at the end, 6 5/8 x 3 3/4 in. (3)
"Volume I is an exhaustive manual of bookbinding and box-making, with tables showing the cost of materials, the time taken over the various processes and the cost of different styles of binding. The other three volumes deal with more specialized work such as the binding of school books, and there is inevitably a good deal of repetition. Volume III has an appendix on apprenticeship regulations." (cf. Pollard, Early Bookbinding Manuals, 1984, no. 22).
