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Suave Mechanicals
Essays on the History of Bookbinding
Volume 8
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Julia Miller, editor
Tom Conroy
Tom Conroy
Sue Donovan
Eliza Jacobi
Karin Scheper
Eve Menei
Jen Lindsay
Julia Miller
Todd Pattison
Jeffrey S. Peachey
David Plummer
Paul Hepworth
Karin Scheper
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Two Groups of Newly Discovered Bookbinders’ Finishing Tool Makers
Jean Eschmann, 1896 –1961
Caoutchouc Bindings: The Origin and Application of a Rubber-Based
Adhesive in Nineteenth-Century Gift Books
A Complete Coptic Codex: A Material Study and Conservation
Approach of a Relatively Unknown Bound Papyrus Manuscript
Coptic Bookbindings from Edfu in The British Library: A Reappraisal
Puzzle Me Again: A Comparison of Two Early Coptic Bindings –
Nag Hammadi Codex II and P. Bodmer XXIII
As Good as It Needs to Be: The Myth of Temporary Covers in
American Book Production, 1700 –1850
“The Binder’s Curse”: John Bradford and Early Nineteenth-Century
American Bookbinding
Between Bag and Box: Characteristics and Conservation Issues of the
Islamic Slipcase
528 pages • 440 illustrations • full color • cloth, sewn
10 x 7 in. • 2023
ISBN 9781940965246 • $120.00