These 8 (of 12) issues of the first year (1925) contain essays, bibliographical studies and critical articles devoted to bookbinding, book design, the graphic arts and print collecting, illustrated with numerous plates and reproductions. Typical contributions treat historical bookbindings, contemporary graphic artists and print portfolios, reviews of recent bookish publications, and specialized notes valuable to librarians, collectors and scholars of book arts. The volume served both as a scholarly journal and as a collectors? magazine, combining technical studies (e.g., on bindings and print techniques) with reviews, illustrations and occasional portfolios or plates by notable graphic artists. Hans Loubier (1863?1931) was a German librarian and prominent book-cover / binding scholar. Born Jean (later Hans) Loubier, he studied philology and German studies and worked in important German art and book libraries; he became known for his research into historical bindings and the book arts and published seminal works on bookbinding and book design. Loubier contributed significantly to early 20th-century German book-art scholarship and served as editor of specialist publications related to bindings and bibliophilia.Willy (Wilhelm Carl Albert) Kurth (1881?1963) was a German art historian and curator associated with print and drawing collections. After studies in art history and practice, Kurth held curatorial positions (notably at the Kupferstichkabinett / print collections) and published on prints and graphic artists. As co-editor of Monatshefte für Bücherfreunde und Graphiksammler he brought museum and curatorial expertise to the periodical and contributed to the documentation and dissemination of graphic-arts scholarship in the 1920s.