Those who may be interested in pursuing further either the historical or the handicraft aspects of bookbinding will find the following list useful. Most of these books also include bibliographies or reading lists.

Susan Stromei Berg, comp., Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg Imprints. New York: Clearwater Publishing Co., 1986.

Vito J. Brenni, Bookbinding: A Guide to the Literature. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1982.

Edith Diehl, Bookbinding, Its Background and Technique. 5th ed. rev. Port Washington, N. Y.: Kennikat Press, 1965.

Hannah D. French, Bookbinding in Early America: Seven Essays on Masters and Methods. Worcester: American Antiquarian Society, 1986.

David Muir, Binding and Repairing Books by Hand. New York: Arco Publishing Co., 1977.

Howard M. Nixon, Five Centuries of English Bookbinding. London: Scholar Press, 1978.

Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress, 1982.

C. Clement Samford and John M. Hemphill II, Bookbinding in Colonial Virginia. Williamsburg, Va.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1966.

Walters Art Gallery, The History of Bookbinding, 525-1950 A.D. Baltimore: The Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery, 1957.

Lawrence C. Wroth, The Colonial Printer. Portland, Me.: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1938.

Laura S. Young, Bookbinding and Conservation by Hand: A Working Guide. New York: R. R. Bowker Co., 1981.

The Bookbinder in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg was first published in 1959 and previously reprinted in 1964, 1970, 1973, 1978, and 1986. Written by Thomas K. Ford, editor of publications at Colonial Williamsburg until 1976, it is based largely on a monograph prepared jointly by C. Clement Samford, then the master bookbinder, and John M. Hemphill II, a member of the Department of Research. The monograph has been published as Bookbinding in Colonial Virginia (Williamsburg Research Studies, 1966).