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Books about the Printing, Paper, and Bookbinding Arts

Now at the Printer!

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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