The phrase "a book of instructions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a manual or guide that provides detailed information on how to perform a task or operate something.
Example: "Before starting the assembly, make sure to read the book of instructions carefully to avoid any mistakes."
Alternatives: "instruction manual" or "guidebook".
Something that everybody can wear without reading a book of instructions first.
Now the balls are packaged with a book of instructions for games I assumed were coded in the genes.
A DNA strand doesn't tell you how to make an organism – it's more like a database, or a dictionary, than a book of instructions.
He has a book of instructions fastened to the peak of his cap, and says he gets in his best licks on Fifth Avenue.
On the back I found a quote by Werner Herzog: "This is a book of instructions to those who will one day dare the impossible".
In the first college course I took in molecular biology, taught by Francis Crick, we learned that DNA is a book of instructions, telling us how to make a specific organism.
Souvenirs of his life are pinned to one wall--a book of instructions for an Ant Farm he had with his first wife, Sylvia; a traffic ticket; a red hat from Cardinal Y, who was a part of his study of cardinals (to know them by classification & enumeration), & to whom he gave chemical & psychological tests.
Throughout the book he underscores his conviction that dramatic literature and performance may be taken as a book of instruction for the way we lead our lives.
They believed, first, that deeper meanings lay behind biblical texts, that the Bible was a book of instruction about the world and how to serve God in it, that it was somehow "seamless" and harmonious despite surface conflicts and, finally, that it was of divine origin.
Basilikon Doron, written as a book of instruction for the four-year-old Prince Henry, provides a more practical guide to kingship.
