Suave Mechanicals

Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 4

Edited by Julia Miller

Book cover: Suave Mechanicals

Extent: 352 pages

Publisher: Archetype Publications Ltd 

Series: Suave Mechanicals

Series volume number: 4

Language: English

Paperback (No longer our product)

(April 2026)

ISBN: 9781940965543

7.01 x 10 inches

Price: $112.00

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This is the fourth volume in the series and was originally published in 2017. The Suave Mechanicals series has been acclaimed internationally for its thought-provoking content related to bookbinding as practiced globally over millennia. 


This is the fourth volume in the series and was originally published in 2017. 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’; Ashley Cataldo, ‘Catalog of the Finishing Tools of the Eighteenth-Century Binder Henry Bilson Legge’; Jana Dambrogio, ‘Trickett’s Tickets’; Gary Frost, ‘Book Interventions: Books Remade by Use’; Marieka Kaye, ‘Diamond in the Rough: A Study of Kelmscott Quarter-Holland Bindings’; Emily Martin and Alice Austin, ‘Book Theater: The History of the Tunnel Book’; Roger Williams, ‘Scaleboard Wood and Potential Loss Replacement’; bibliographies and index.

  • Edited by Julia Miller