Chapters Include: Detailed history of the book - From scrolls or tablets - From papyrus to parchment - Methods and tools used - Styles of illumination - Life of scriptorium and the scribe - even the development of the book trade.

'An introduction to the history of the book, from ancient times to just before the Gutenberg press; a large number of colored plates of illuminated manuscripts; a section on great libraries and their manuscript treasures; a list of illuminators, bibliography, index'.