The Book Art Movement was a movement that proceeded mainly from England at the end of the 19th century and lasted until roughly the 1930s. It was concerned with a renewal of book art and its aim was to improve the way books were produced both artistically and technically, and above all to present the book as a unity of text, type, illustration, print, paper and cover. The realisation of this ideal began with the English painter, architect, printer and book designer William Morris with his Kelmscott Press (1891-1898).

The Book Art Movement was supported and funded by publishers, illustrators, type designers, painters and sculptors, architects and writers as well as bibliophile societies, private presses, publishing houses, type foundries and printing workshops. The profession book artist or book designer emerged as the person responsible for the overall production in a publishing house or only for individual works. Important book artist taught at art schools or academies. The Book Art Movement was influenced by the style dictates of the era, first of all by Art Nouveau, then by the New Objectivity of Bauhaus. Their ideas to raise the quality of book production also affected the design of mass and consumer books and initiated book design competitions in many countries.