Reprint of the 1999 first edition. Ownership inscription in ink on the front free endpaper, else a fine copy.

A total of ten chapters on single-quire Coptic codices, multi-quire Coptic codices, late Coptic codices, the Ethiopian codex, the Islamic codex, Byzantine codices, Carolingian bindings, Romanesque bindings, Gothic bindings and limp bindings. Includes a bibliography and an index. Illustrated throughout.