Emily Preston, a bookbinder hailing from the state of New York, was an esteemed and prominent pupil of T.J. Cobden-Sanderson, completing a tenure of study at Cobden-Sanderson’s Doves Bindery. Preston’s personal bindery in New York was located at 223 East 17th Street, a location that proved revolutionary in the promulgation of the craft of bookbinding. Following a meeting in Preston’s New York bindery on November 14, 1906, a constituency of binders, illuminators, and designers united together to form the Guild of Book Workers, an organization reflective of the prized status of women binders in the Arts and Crafts Movement. Of the Guild of Book Workers’ thirteen members, ten of whom were women. While Preston originally developed and honed her craft as a pupil of Cobden-Sanderson at Doves Bindery, she continued to impart her knowledge and insights in the field by adopting pupils of her own, some of the most notable including Helen Haskell (Noyes), Elizabeth Chapin, Alice Provost, and Eleanore Sweringen (Tidcombe, 1996).