fascinating for a narrow audience but the reprints are the best part
4 stars
So if you're interested in the 1937 volume Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, this is a fascinating response to it, with reprints from it and two essays about about that book came to be. Bookmaking on the Distaff Side was a "potluck book" (as one of the essayists describes it) that a group of women bookmakers jointly created by each woman printing her own gathering of her contribution, and then sending it off so that all the individually printed sections could be gathered and bound into a single volume of 100 copies. It's a delight! (You can see a digital black-and-white facsimile of it at HathiTrust hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.c081869458) Go look at that instead of reading this, unless you want to know the history behind it.