"This edition adds more than 100 new entries and many new illustrations; corrects and brings up to date the entries of the work of others; and brings the vocabulary and theory of bookselling and collecting into the modern commercial and academic world, which has been forced to adjust to a new reality thanks to worldwide medical and economic concerns"-- Provided by publisher.

Foreword to the first edition /by Nicholas Basbanes -- Foreword to the second edition / by Joel Silver -- Introduction to the first edition -- Introduction to the second edition -- The Dictionary.