Book Curses has commentary and selections by Eleanor Baker, but is largely taken up with reproductions of various curses people have written in books, from ancient times to modern, in order to "protect" the books from being stolen. I was hoping for a little more commentary, personally, though there is enough to provide context (both general, for each block of time discussed, and specific to each curse).

I wasn't 100% sure I agreed with all of the translations, personally. It's been over a decade since Middle English was my field, though (and I have a lot more practice with Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic), so probably I should concede that Baker likely knows what she's doing. There was a translation of a word "pokke" (I think -- I can't quickly find the exact spelling again to check) which can mean "sleeve" or, more obviously, "pocket". It was translated in this volume as "sleeve", with a comment about a particular kind of sleeve that might have been meant. Pocket might have been a more common-sense translation there. 

That said, that's quibbling, and I appreciated some of the other decisions very much (like keeping the original choice of where to break lines, for the most part). It's an interesting little compilation!