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

On back order

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