The Art of The Book
1914
A Review of some recent European and American work in Typography, Page Decoration & Binding
"This book was published as a supplement to The Studio Magazine, which was a well-known art magazine in England. This supplement was to show what was going on in the book art world at the time. They had write-ups and excellent images of bindings and printing in England, France, and other European countries.
The magazine printed the supplement, but it became more famous than the magazine. I bound it in an Art Deco style, in honour of my favourite woman bookbinder, Sybil Pye. The technique includes leather onlay and gold tooling. This copy is my own copy of the supplement, and the binding is unique."
The description of this book is transcribed from conversations between Yehuda Miklaf and Shiraz Grinbaum held in January 2026. The collection of the legendary Jerusalem bookbinder was photographed especially for the website by Yair Meyuhas. Miklaf's collection includes Design Bindings created over more than 40 years.
- Design: The Studio
- Editing: C. Geoffrey Holme
- Texts: Bernard H. Newdigate, Douglas Cockerell, L. Deubner, E.A Taylor, August Brunius, William Dana Orcutt
- Pages: 276
- Type of binding: Design Binding
- Languages: English
- Dimensions (cm): 32x23
- Binding: Yehuda Miklaf
- Type of printing: Offset
- Publication: The Studio
- Place of publication: London, Paris, New York
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
Yehuda Miklaf was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1942, and educated there and in New York. In 1968, he moved to Toronto and began working at the University of Toronto Library, where he stayed for almost ten years. During this time, he began to learn bookbinding with Emrys Evans at the Rare Book Library. Yehuda befriended two other notable binders in the Toronto area. One was Anton (Tony) Lucas, the binder at the Metropolitan Toronto Library, and Michael Wilcox, who was an independent binder. Miklaf has been working as a professional binder since 1977 with major book collectors, artists, private presses, galleries, and museums in Israel and around the world. He immigrated to Jerusalem in the fall of 1986 with his wife, Maurene Fritz. He is also a professional printer and has made a number of his own artist’s books in limited editions. His own press, based in Jerusalem, is titled Yehuda Shalom Press.
