SUAVE MECHANICALS: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING, VOLUME 5 by Miller, Julia - 2017

Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2017. cloth, dust jacket. Bookbinding. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 464 pages. VOLUME 5. The eight authors in this volume are: Lydia Aitkenhead; Ruth Bardenstein; Jim Bloxam and Shaun Thompson; Bexx Caswell and Patrick Olson; Peter Geraty; Kathleen Kiefer, Barbara Korbel, and Eva-Maria Schuchardt; Todd Pattison and Graham Patten; and Karin Scheper. Two canvas samples are also included.

The Legacy Pr, 2013. ~With CD-Rom. Many colour illustrations. No ownership marks. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request.. Hardback. Fine/Fine. xi,522pp., many illus. 18x26cm. With dustwrapper. Binding sound, text unmarked.

Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2022. cloth, dust jacket. Bookbinding. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 620 pages. VOLUME 7. The critically acclaimed series on bookbinding edited by Julia Miller continues to turn heads with the release of volume seven. The authors in this volume are: Pablo Alvarez with The Burning of the Butterfly: A Plaquette Binding at the University of Michigan Library, Alexandra Alvis with Working on the Best Material and by the Best Methods: Douglas Cockerell and Son, and the Bindery's Work for the University of Glasgow Library, Malina Belcheva with Unveiling Secrets of the Trade: Owen Jones and the Relievo Art of 'The Psalms of David', Tom Conroy with A Lineage of Finishing Tool Makers in Georgian Dublin, Arthur Green with Cutting Book Edges In-Boards, Jessica Keister & Emma Hartman with Cords to Nowhere: The Bindings of Anna Atkins Photographs of British Algæ: Cyanotype Impressions, Leather Discussion by Kristi Wright, Katharine C. Wagner, William Dean Minter & Holly Herro (The… Read More

Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2023. cloth, dust jacket. Bookbinding. 7 x 10 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 528 pages. The most recent volume of this critically acclaimed series on bookbinding includes the following essays: - Two Groups of Newly Discovered Bookbinders Finishing Tool Makers by Tom Conroy - Jean Eschmann, 1896-1961 by Tom Conroy - Caoutchouc Bindings: The Origin and Application of a Rubber-Based Adhesive in Nineteenth-Century Gift Books by Sue Donovan - A Complete Coptic Codex: A Material Study and Conservation Approach of a Relatively Unknown Bound Papyrus Manuscript by Eliza Jacobi, Karin Scheper, and Eve Menei - Coptic Bookbindings from Edfu in The British Library: A Reappraisal by Jen Lindsay - Puzzle Me Again: A Comparison of Two Early Coptic Bindings - Nag Hammadi Codex II and P. Bodmer XXIII by Julia Miller - As Good as It Needs to Be: The Myth of Temporary Covers in American Book Production, 1700-1850 by Todd Pattison - "The Binders Curse": John Bradford and Early… Read More