The purpose of this research is to qualify The Red Book of C.G. Jung as a work of art. For this, we first sought what concepts and validation criteria of the book as such. Circumscribed the species that pass through this category – rare books and artist books – we contemplate, through a historical journey, through the history of the book, its specificities, assumptions and approximations, because, if on the one hand, similar to the illuminated medieval manuscripts, such publication reinvigorates the book as a work of art, on the other hand, the process of creation of the work breaks with the paradigm of book making through a collaborative and specialized process in force since that time, in which, traditionally, the author writes texts, does not produce books. This paradigm shift is one of the main assumptions of the category that relocates in history the book as a work of art through the field of the artist s book – in its broad sense – according to which the author not only writes, but makes the book, and is studied to himself in the process, so how to circumscribe it? With this we hope to achieve the objective underlying the central theme – to rescue the cultural and artistic value of the book, highlighting the plastic and creative potential it offers.