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Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour

Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp

This landmark book profiles an artistic movement that has operated largely outside the mainstream art world, and it serves as both an overdue history and an up-close look at the range, versatility, and brilliance of art created with colored paper pulp. 

 

Although handmade papers have been employed by artists for centuries, the use of handmade paper and colored paper pulp as an integral element in creating art – as opposed to serving only as the surface on which art is created – has seen remarkable development over the last 70 years. As early practitioners like Douglas Morse Howell, Laurence Barker, and Kenneth Tyler mapped out new directions in using colored paper pulp, their work inspired the careers of  generations of artists who have taken this medium in fresh and unexpected directions. This foundational book – the first of its kind – features 73 artist innovators whose work, grounded in the common medium of paper and pulp, takes flight through an array of applications, modalities, and techniques, from the pictorial to the structural, representational to abstract, two- and three-dimensional, spanning the meditative to the mercurial.

 

Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp introduces and expands the medium to artists, curators, collectors, art historians, and the broader public as it highlights the dynamic scope and inventiveness of today’s leading practitioners.

 

Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp

440 pages  •  342 full-colored images  •  hardcover, sewn  •  12 x 9 in.  •  2024  • 9781940965260  •  $75.00

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For Books in Sheets, scroll to the bottom of the page.

In-Print Titles

Bookbinding

Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding

Editor: Julia Miller

 

[All volumes in the Suave Mechanicals series are in full color, hardcover/sewn, 10 x 7 in.; vols. 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7 are out of print.]

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Vol. 2

454 pages

427 illustrations

9780979797484

2015 • $75.00

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Vol. 5

464 pages

531 illustrations

9781940965123

2019 • $85.00

Vol. 8

528 pages

411 illustrations

9781940965246

2023 • $120.00

Jen Lindsay

Fine Bookbinding : a technical guide 

216 pages  •  266 illustrations  •  hardcover, sewn

 

​USA: $70.00  •  ISBN 9781940965277

Order through Oak Knoll Books: 

https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/141072

UK: £55.00  •  ISBN 9781940965307

Order through J Hewit & Sons Ltd.: 

https://www.hewit.com/news/?year=2024&month=july

Islamic Bookbinding revealed through the lens of the Montefiascone Conservation Project

Edited by Julia Miller

​272 pages  •  220 illustrations  •  full color  •  softcover

 

USA: $55.00  •  ISBN 9781940965253

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https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/140983

UK: £45.00  •  ISBN 9781940965291

Order through Archetype Publications: https://archetype.co.uk/

David Pearson

Cambridge Bookbinding, 1450–1770

344 pages • 508 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2023 • 9781940965239 • $115.00

Julia Miller

Books Will Speak Plain: A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings

3rd edition, revised and enlarged

720 pages • 390 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2023 • 9781940965192 • $150.00. Click here for Awards/Reviews.

Georgios Boudalis

On the Edge: Endbands in the Book-binding Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean

352 pages • 424 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2022 • 9781953421111 • $80.00

Gary Frost

A Crafted Typology of the Codex: Book Modelmaking as an Approach to Material Book Study

100 pages • 53 illustrations • full color • softcover • 10 x 7 in. • 2021 • 9781953421067 • $17.50

Theodore C. Petersen

Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library

Editor: Francisco H. Trujillo

532 pages • 370 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 11 x 8 in. • 2021 • 9781953421043 • $150.00

Julia Miller

Traditions and Individuality: Bindings from the University of Michigan Greek Manuscript Collection

661 pages • 731 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 11 x 8 in. • 2021 • 9781953421012 • $100.00

Julia Miller

Meeting by Accident: Selected Historical Bindings

707 pages • 717 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • DVD with 652 additional images and video • 9781940965079 • $125.00. Click here for Awards/Reviews.

Paper

Papermaker's Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper

Tatiana Ginsberg, editor

Volume 2

288 pages • 327 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • sheet of watermarked paper made by Nicholas Yeager • 2023 • 9781940965222 • $95.00

Ibe Kyoko • Elise Thoron

The Way of Washi Tales

232 pages • 210 illustrations • full color •

softcover • 10 x 7 in. • 2023 • 9781940965208 • $45.00

Alan Isaac

'Morris Marbles': Oxford's Paper Marbler, Edward Webster Morris (1842–1919)

224 pages • 92 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2023 •

9781940965215 • $80.00

Paper and Colour: Dyes and Dyeing around the World

Radha Pandey, editor

296 pages • 355 illustrations • full color •

softcover • 10 x 7 in. • 2022 • 9781953421098 • $45.00

Richard L. Saunders

Reams in the Desert: Papermaking in Utah, 1849–1891

196 pages • 58 illustrations • full color • softcover • 9 x 6 in. • 2021 • 9781953421074 • $25.00

Aimee Lee

Hanji Unfurled: One Journey into Korean Papermaking

208 pages • 320 illustrations • full color • soft-cover edition, 2nd printing • 2021 • 10 x 7 in. •  9781953421050 • $35.00. Click here for Awards/Reviews.

Timothy D. Barrett

European Hand Papermaking: Traditions,Tools, and Techniques

352 pages •  394 illustrations • softcover, 2nd edition, 2nd printing • 10 x 7 in. • 2021 • 9781940965130 • $55.00

Peter and Donna Thomas

They Made the Paper at Tuckenhay Mill: Interviews with Retired Hand Papermakers

118 pages • 38 illustrations • black & white • softcover • 10 x 7 • 2017 • 9781940965048 •

$20.00

Susan J. Byrd

A Song of Praise for Shifu: Shifu Sanka

412 pages • 490 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2013 • 9780979797422. Click here for Awards/Reviews.

NB: Title is only available from the author; email: susanjbyrd-book@yahoo.com

Maureen P. Green

The Green Family of Papermakers and Hayle Mill

292 pages • 44 illustrations • black & white/color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2018 • 9781940965093 • $55.00

Cathleen A. Baker

From the Hand to the Machine. Nineteenth-Century American Paper and Mediums: Technologies, Materials, and Conservation

432 pages • 500+ illustrations • color/black & white • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2014, 2nd printing • 9780979797422 • $65.00. Click here for Awards/Reviews. 

Printing/Publishing

Russell Maret

Visionaries & Fanatics and Other Essays on Type Design, Technology, & the Private Press

143 pages • 337 illustrations • full color •

10 x 7 in. • 2021

hardcover with type specimen

 9781953421029 • $70.00

softcover, no specimen

9781953421036 • $35.00

Making Impressions: Women in Printing and Publishing

Cathleen A. Baker • Rebecca M. Chung, editors

340 pages • 220 illustrations • full color • softcover • 10 x 7 in. • 2020 • 9781953421005 • $70.00

James Horton

Commercial Wood Engraving in the 20th Century

224 pages • 307 illustrations • full color •

softcover • 8.5 x 8.5 in. • 2020 •

9781940965185 • $60.00

Cathleen A. Baker • John DePol

Endgrain Designs & Repetitions:

The Pattern Papers of John DePol

174 pages • 117 patterns, black & red • hardcover, sewn • 9 x 6 in. • 2015 • 9780979797491 • $20.00

Alonso Víctor de Paredes’ Institution, and Origin of the Art of Printing, and General Rules for Compositors [Madrid: ca. 1680]

Pablo Alvarez, ed. & and trans.

466 pages • 212 illustrations • full color •

hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2018 •

9781940965109 • $100.00

Conservation/Bibliography / Exhibit Catalogs

Christine A. Smith

Yours Respectfully, William Berwick: Paper Conservation in the United States and Western Europe, 1800 to 1935

696 pages • 112 illustrations • hardcover,

sewn • 11 x 8 in. • 2016 • 9781940965017 • $90.00. Click here for Awards/Reviews.

NB: Piece of silking used to conserve George Washington’s Last Will and Testament is available, email: thelegacypress@gmail.com

Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa

Mooring a Field: Paul N. Banks and the Education of Library and Archives Conservators

294 pages • 50  illustrations • softcover • 9 x 6 in. • 2019/2024 • 9781940965284 • $65.00

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Peter & Donna Thomas

Peter and Donna Bibliography, 1974–2020

446 pages • 946 illustrations • full-color • hardcover, sewn • 8.5 x 8.5 in. • 2021 •

9781940965178 • $100.00

Barbara Heritage • Ruth-Ellen St. Onge

Building the Book from Ancient Times to the Present Day. Illustrated from the Teaching Collections of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia

334 pages • 262 illustrations • full color •

hardcover, sewn • 11 x 8 in. • 2022 •

9781953421104 • $44.95

NB: This book is distributed by the University of Virginia Press.

Pablo Alvarez

The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance

152 pages • 125 illustrations • full color •

hardcover, sewn • 12 x 9 in. • 2017 • 9781940965031 • $35.00

Books in Sheets

In the past, The Legacy Press has occasionally ordered set of sheets (F&Gs) from the printer at the time of a title’s production. However, this practice ended with the publication of Suave Mechanicals, vol. 7, in 2021. The following are the few titles left in sets of sheets. Note: The Visionaries set of sheets has been Smyth-sewn but not trimmed. Shipping and handling (s/h) prices below are only for mailing within the U.S.A. 

Alvarez | Paredes’ Printing Manual    $55 + $8 s/h = $63.00      2 left

Thomas | Bibliography, 1974–2020     $55 + $8 s/h = $63.00    25 left

Maret | Visionaries & Fanatics             $15 + $6 s/h = $21.00    11 left

 

To order any sets of sheets, email thelegacypress@gmail.com. Sets of sheets are not sold through Oak Knoll Books.

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