"Crust and Crumb" is a great one, as is Dan Leader's "Bread Alone", and Rose Levy Beirenbaum's "The Bread Bible" (her book "regular" bread as well as artisan loave but her recipes are utterly fantastic). "The Village Baker" is also a favorite of mine. "The Bread Baker's Apprentice" is Peter Reinhart's "sequal" to "Crust and Crumb" but I'm not sure it's a great starting place. I've learned from all these books and more.
Take a couple of hours, if you can, and visit a good bookstore. Places like Barnes & Noble have places where you can sit and browse. Pick out a few bread-baking books from the shelves and go sit down and browse through them. You'll find the one that speaks to your heart, showing you the kind of bread that you want to make. Then take it home with you. If you can't afford the bookstore's price there are used copies available online, through Amazon or ebay or other used book source. (And I strongly suggest that you start with only one and stick with it until you feel ready to move on to other techniques, so that you don't get yourself confused by different baker's techniques).
Why do I recommend starting with a book? It's simple - they have pictures. They show you what starters should look like in various stages, what bread dough looks like in various stages, how to shape a loaf, and more. You may know all that but pictures are still helpful. That kind of help is invaluable. Not to mention the inspiration the pictures of the baked loaves provide...
The most important thing you'll need for baking artisan loaves is a baking stone in your oven in order to simulate a hearth. There are a variety of materials you can use for this - refractory bricks, a manufactured pizza stone, unglazed quarry tiles (you can get these at a tile store), a kiln shelf from a ceramics kiln. And a source for adding some water when you put the bread in to create steam - a cast iron or other substantial pay you can put on the bottom, a spray bottle for spritzing the sides of the oven, or some such thing.
If you want a starting place, I posted a recipe here for French Bread 2-3 months ago, I'll see if I can find the link for you.
Here it is -
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=236&topic_id=12192#12200If it's not what you want, ask again.