Waisted Efforts - Book

A couple of years ago, I set up a search on Trade Me for the corset books that were generally regarded as pretty good, so that it would email me if someone was selling them. The likelihood that someone would first buy and then actually sell on TradeMe one of these books was low, but I was patient, and recently "Waisted Efforts" came up and I got it at a fraction of the price (like a half or a third) that it would cost to buy it from overseas, thus making it a price that I would reasonably pay for a book here if I really wanted it. Woohoo!
It arrived today and it is thicker (fairly chunky), slightly bigger (about landscape A4), and a lot more readable than I thought it would be. I was sort of thinking of it more like a reference book only, but it looks like you could read through it rather than just flick to relevant pages. This is good.
For some reason I thought it was written by a woman, and read through the overview and preface with this in mind, before seeing that the preface was signed "Robert" and which thus seemed rather odd.
If I remember, I might do a review of it. I'm not sure I'm really happy with it's mix of "authentic" with "useful for theatre" but we'll see how it goes.