Suave Mechanicals
Essays on the History of Bookbinding. Volume 5
Edited by Julia Miller
Paperback (No longer our product)
(April 2026)
ISBN: 9781940965550
7.01 x 10 inches
Price: $115.00
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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
