SCOTT-MARTIN KOSOFSKY is a book designer, writer, editor, and typeface designer who specializes in Judaica, illustrated histories, music, and art. He lives and works in the Boston area, where he is principal of The Philidor Company, a small design firm. Before devoting himself to books, Scott had a youthful career in music and made a Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1969, shortly before his sixteenth birthday. He studied music in Holland as well as music and European history at Cornell University. In 1974, he became the youngest winner of the Erwin Bodky Prize, the major American award in the field of early music.    In October 2004, HarperSanFrancisco published Scott's The Book of Customs. This "Complete Handbook for the Jewish Year" is an illustrated digest of Jewish life and time, liturgy and Bible, ­inspired by the old Yiddish customs books that were first published in the 1590s and were household essentials for three hundred years. Scott is the coeditor, designer, and one of the authors of the new edition of The Jews of Boston, which was published by Yale University Press in August 2005. In progress for 2007 is a major illustrated history of American Jewish life that he is cowriting with Brandeis historian Jonathan Sarna, which will also be published by Yale.    Scott is the winner of a number of design awards, including several of the American Institute of Graphic Arts's 50 Books/50 Covers of the Year awards. He was a double winner in the First International Typeface Design Competition held by the Type Directors Club and a jury selection in the Premio Felice Feliciano. His recent work includes a series of posters and the book Three Hundred Fifty Years: An Album of American Jewish Memory for the organization Celebrate 350, in recognition of the 350th anniversary of Jewish settlement in America; the book Printing the Talmud for the Yeshiva University Museum; and the Brandeis Modern Hebrew. His upcoming work includes books about the Prato Haggadah at Jewish Theological Seminary and the official guide to the John Singer Sargent murals at the Boston Public Library.    Scott serves in various volunteer capacities at the Boston Public Library, as a longtime member of its Associates board and as co-chairman of its Acquisitions Committee, and as an advisor to the annual Literary Lights event. He was a founder and past president of the Boston Early Music Festival and is currently vice president of the Society of Printers, an honorary society for whose centennial Scott has conceived and edited a book of essays entitled The SP Century.    Scott is married to the designer Betsy Sarles and has three children.