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crl-15825	Garrett, Jeffrey	Foot, Mirjam M. Bookbinders at Work: Their Role and Methods. Newcastle, Del.: Oak Knoll; London: The British Library, 2006. 163 p. $59.95 (ISBN 1584561688 [US]; 0712349014 [UK]).	2006	3	.pdf	application/pdf	1958	86	58	Certainly, authors of the increasingly popular mystery genre revolving around the oft en baffling ciphers and semiotics of old books and their constituent parts—in the tradition of Eco’s Name of the Rose (1981) and Pérez-Reverte’s Club Dumas (1993), now, of course, Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code (2003)—could weave many wonderful tales from the arcana and mi- nutiae Mirjam Foot has brought together in this volume. To stay for a moment with the example at hand: we learn in Foot’s book that sprinkled edges on books were not just decorative, but often helped hide the dirt on the edges; that red and green sprin- kling said “French” to German readers; that sprinkling with red alone suggested 480 College & Research Libraries elegance, but a solid red edge signaled a book that was for peasants.	cache/crl-15825.pdf	txt/crl-15825.txt