Suave Mechanicals

This is the ninth and last volume in the series; it was originally published in 2025. The Suave Mechanicals series has been acclaimed internationally for its thought-provoking content related to bookbinding as practiced globally over millennia. 

This is the ninth and last volume in the series; it was originally published in 2025. 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’; Whitney Baker, ‘Keeping the Books: Italian Stationery Bindings in the Rubinstein Collection of the Orsetti Family Business Archive at the University of Kansas’; Guilherme Canhão, ‘Portuguese Gothic Binding: A Foral Charter from the Sixteenth Century’; Ashley Cataldo, ‘Extension of Use: An Exploration of  Printed and Manuscript Waste in Early American Bookbinding’; Kyle A. Clark, ‘Bookbinding Education in American Degree- and Diploma-Awarding Institutions’; Tom Conroy, ‘A Synoptic List of Jean Eschmann’s Post-Cranbrook Fine Bindings’; Tom Conroy, ‘The Singer of Tales in Scottish Bookbinding: Layout, Design, and Social Function of an Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh “Wheel” Binding’; Amy Crist, ‘A Technical Analysis of European Musical Partbooks Bound in Paper’; Steffi Dippold, ‘The Gender of Binding; or the Matriarchive of the Wampanoag Bible’; Anna Embree, ‘Best Practices for Making Models of Historic Books’; Anne McLain, ‘Hidden Treasures: Searching for Scottish Wheel and Herringbone Bindings in Harvard Libraries’ Collections’; John Nove, ‘Like a Fly in Amber: Analysis of a Group of Early American Scaleboard Schoolbooks’; Todd Pattison, ‘How Did They Do That? The Role of Thoughtful Deconstruction in Understanding and Communicating Bookbinding Structure’; Jeffrey S. Peachey, ‘Reading a Blank Book Filled with Mistakes: What Structural Evidence, Technical Manuals, and Craft Can Teach Us about an Eighteenth-Century French Bookbinding’; Olivia Primanis, ‘What’s in a Cover: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Commercial Photograph Albums’; Richard L. Saunders, ‘Bookbinding in Isolation: Lessons from the John B. Kelly Ledgers, Salt Lake City, 1853–1867’; Jay Tanner, ‘Marguerite Loeb – America’s First Designer Bookbinder?’; bibliographies and index.

• Edited by Julia Miller