Books are a meeting place. A sum of their many partsand artistic approaches. Form, concept, material, andcraft are bound together to create something rooted inits functionality; a process that often crosses over intothe messier realm of art. Books. Art, Craft & Communitypresents a thriving ecosystem of papermakers, printers,bookbinders, artists, designers, and publishers fromaround the world. They draw on traditional skills, art, andexperimentation to make books that matter today. Withover 30 profiles spanning traditional craftspeople, tomodern makers reimagining the book for new audiences and contributions from experts, we are given aninsight into the history and contemporary context of theprocesses behind the books.Selected by Simon Goode and Ira Yonemura of theLondon Centre for Book Arts, these artists and makersshare a spirit of curiosity and resilience. They not onlyadapt to new ways that readers engage with books, but areforging new possibilities for their craft along the way