📚 Bookbinding

The physical craft: sewing, tooling and the finishing tradition that makes an object worth rebacking.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject bookbinding in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Poems	William Cowper	1782	110
	Aucassin And Nicolete	Andrew Lang	1887	79
	The works of Lord Byron	Lord Byron	1800	63
	The course of time	Robert Pollok	1827	50
	Bookbinding, and the care of books	Douglas Cockerell	1908	36
	Romans et contes	Voltaire	1778	34
	Bookbinding, and the care of books	Douglas Cockerell	1901	27
	Darrel of the Blessed Isles	Irving Bacheller	1903	16
	A Spinner in the Sun	Myrtle Reed	1906	15
	Young Lives	Richard Le Gallienne	1898	14
	The art of bookbinding	Joseph William Zaehnsdorf	1880	13
	The Christian	Hall Caine	1897	13
	Bibliopegia	John Hannett	1836	12
	Days off	Henry van Dyke	1907	12
	Bookbinding for beginners	Florence Ordway Bean	1914	11
	The quest of the golden girl	Richard Le Gallienne	1896	10
	Notes on bookbinding for libraries	John Cotton Dana	1906	10
	The bookbinding craft and industry	T. Harrison	1921	9
	Hand Bookbinding	Aldren Auld Watson	1963	9
	Modern bookbinding	Alex J. Vaughan	1929	8
	The preservation of leather bookbindings	H. J. Plenderleith	1946	8
	French bookbinders, 1789-1848	Charles Ramsden	1950	8
	London bookbinders, 1780-1840	Charles Ramsden	1956	8
	The Art of Bookbinding	Joseph W. Zaehnsdorf	1967	8
	The binding of books	Herbert Percy Horne	1894	7
	Bookbinding	William F. Matthews	1929	7
	Creative Bookbinding	Pauline Johnson	1964	7
	Modern bookbinding	Douglas Leighton	1935	6
	Basic bookbinding	A. W. Lewis	1952	6
	Non-adhesive binding	Keith A. Smith	1990	6

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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