Chapter One Hundred Twenty-Three: Sam Ellenport & Ron Gordon: Reflections of Two Craftsmen

This funny little book was recommended to me, so I read it--I doubt I ever would have found it on my own.  It consists of two essays: the one by Ellenport is about binding books by hand and the one by Gordon is about type-setting and book design, since those are the crafts they practice.  I found it a lot more interesting than I though I would, and while reading it they even had me convinced that I wanted to start practicing these crafts, despite the fact that current technologies are quickly rendering them largely obsolete.  (I came to my senses when I finished reading the book.)  Ron Gordon designed this book, as he still works as a book designer, and I do have to say that I found it very odd and actually quite distracting that he chose to justify the text to left only, rather than having it justified on both sides.  Nonetheless, if you love books not just as stories but as objects, this is an interesting first-hand look at how books have traditionally been created.