Bookmaking: Editing, Design, Production, 3rd Ed.

Marshall Lee

Praise for Bookmaking, 3rd ed.:

"[S]uccessfully integrates the three aspects of bookmaking into a single process. . . [A] valuable textbook that is both testament to rapid technological change and an admirable example of the enduring nature of the book."

—SHARP News

"What the Chicago Manual of Style is to the editorial sphere, Bookmaking is to the production sphere."
—Bloomsbury Review

Overview

The unchallenged bible of the publishing industry, Bookmaking is the introduction to editing, design, and production for newcomers, acclaimed as the premier text for students as well as a comprehensive reference for experienced hands. First issued in 1965 and revised in 1979, it has now been thoroughly reorganized and updated to reflect the profound changes in the bookmaking process and in publishing practices in the twenty-first century.

The computer-centered method of getting from the author's conception to completed print-or electronic-book has come to dominate publishing, involving not only the setting of type but also the preparation of manuscripts, editing, illustration creation and processing, page makeup, color separation, and preparation for printing. Even more significant than its use for these individual procedures is the computer's role in creating an integrated system that is greater than the sum of its parts.

Covering all the publishing processes up to distribution, Bookmaking addresses the needs of publishing professionals, whether they do the work themselves in-house or have it done to their specifications by outside suppliers. But this new edition is not only about technological change; all aspects of bookmaking have been reconsidered. The text that served the industry for nearly three decades has been updated where appropriate, while still providing the unchanging facts and principles of book craft.

Praise for the Second Edition

"Marshall Lee's Bookmaking . . . enthusiastically recommended for public, academic, and special libraries with book, journal, and self-publishing collections."
-Choice

"This peerless book heads off all the common mistakes of fragmented publishing crafts by teaching the whole of bookmaking-editing, design, and production-as a single discipline. It's the book I learned from."
-Steward Brand, The Next Whole Earth Catalog

"[T]his is the best book currently available on bookmaking in the U.S."
-College & Research Libraries

About the Author

During Marshall Lee's half-century in publishing he has taught and written about almost all aspects of bookmaking, and has been a distinguished performer in each one himself. He has been widely known and respected as a writer, editor, designer, producer, packager, and publisher of books of many kinds. He was a vice-president of Harry N. Abrams, Inc., and an executive of Fratelli Fabbri in Italy. Through his own two companies, Balance House, Ltd., and The International Archive of Art, Ltd., he has created and produced books for major publishers in the United States, Europe, and Japan. An early proponent of integrating the publishing process, he has revised Bookmaking to reflect the computer-assisted realization of that aim.

ISBN: 0-393-73018-2
Winter 2004
Cloth, illustrated