Suave Mechanicals

This is the fifth volume in the series and was originally published in 2019. The Suave Mechanicals series has been acclaimed internationally for its thought-provoking content related to bookbinding as practiced globally over millennia. 

This is the fifth volume in the series and was originally published in 2019. 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’; Lydia Aikenhead, ‘Pictures in Your Pocket: A History of the American Tintype Album’; Ruth Bardenstein, ‘Samaritan Manuscript Bindings from Four Collections in the United States’; Jim Bloxam and Shaun Thompson, ‘A Previously Unrecorded Sewing Technique Deciphered during a Study of a Twelfth-Century, Limp Tawed-Skin Binding’; Bexx Caswell and Patrick Olson, ‘Germany and the Modernization of Bookbinding: Evidence from Michigan State University’s Criminology Collection’; Peter Geraty, ‘A Manual Approach to Stiff-Board Parchment Binding’; Kathleen Kiefer, Barbara Korbel and Eva-Maria Schuchardt, ‘Picking Up the Thread: A Study of Bookbinding Canvas’; Todd Pattison and Graham Patten, ‘Confusing the Case: Books Bound with Adhered Boards, 1760–1860’; Karin Scheper, ‘Endband Varieties in the Islamic World’; bibliographies and index.

• Edited by Julia Miller