Suave Mechanicals

Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 2

Edited by Julia Miller

Book cover: Suave Mechanicals

Extent: 568 pages

Publisher: Archetype Publications Ltd 

Series: Suave Mechanicals

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

Paperback (No longer our product)

(April 2026)

ISBN: 9781940965529

7.01 x 10 inches

Price: $124.00

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This is the second volume in the series and was originally published in 2015. The Suave Mechanicals series has been acclaimed internationally for its thought-provoking content related to bookbinding as practiced globally over millennia. 


This is the second volume in the series and was originally published in 2015. The Suave Mechanicals series has been acclaimed internationally for its thought-provoking content related to bookbinding as practiced globally over millennia. 

Julia Miller, ‘Editor’s Preface’; Cathleen A. Baker, ‘Examination and Image-Capturing Techniques’; Thomas E. Conroy, ‘Binding at Midcentury: The Rivers of America Competition of 1946’; Thomas E. Conroy, ‘Bio-Bibliographical List of Individual Bookbinders’; Jim Croft, ‘Finding Suitable Wood for Book Boards and Related Considerations’; Julia Miller, ‘Puzzle Me This: Early Binding Fragments in the Papyrology Collection of the University of Michigan Library’; Rosa Scobey Moore, ‘Finding Identity on the Endpapers: Folk Traditions of Writing and Drawing in Books’; Pamela J. Spitzmueller, ‘A Visual Dictionary of Traditional Long- and Linkstitch Bookbinding Terminology’; bibliographies and index.

  • Edited by Julia Miller