Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2026. 7 x 10 inches. softcover. 568 pages. This is a softcover reprint of Volume 2 in the Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding series, which was originally published in hardcover in 2015 and which recently went out-of-print. The series has been acclaimed internationally for its thought-provoking content related to bookbinding as practiced globally over millennia. Table of Contents: Julia Miller, "Editor's Preface"; Cathleen A. Baker, "Examination..... READ MORE about SUAVE MECHANICALS: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING, VOLUME 2

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Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2026. 7 x 10 inches. softcover. 520 pages. This is a softcover reprint of Volume 3 in the Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding series, which was originally published in hardcover in 2016 and which has been out-of-print for some time. This volume is dedicated to honor "those who participated in the 1966 Florence Flood recovery; those who subsequently studied historical bindings and took lessons from them;..... READ MORE about SUAVE MECHANICALS: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING, VOLUME 3

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Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2025. 10 x 7 inches. hardcover, sewn. 832 pages. Volume 9 is the last in the highly acclaimed series of Suave Mechanicals, all edited by Julia Miller. This volume features 16 essays on a wide range of subjects, all centered on bookbinding. The essays and authors are: - Whitney Baker: Keeping the Books: Italian Stationery Bindings in the Rubinstein Collection of the Orsetti Family Business Archive at the University..... READ MORE about SUAVE MECHANICALS: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING. VOL. 9

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Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2018. 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 707 pages. Research into the history of the book and bookbinding makes our historical bindings relevant again and makes them better company. Studying and understanding and identifying and describing give us more information to consider when we must make decisions about our historical books. Accumulating this information most affects our great institutional collections, and to an extent, private collections, because the custodians of those..... READ MORE about MEETING BY ACCIDENT: SELECTED HISTORICAL BINDINGS

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Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2026. 7 x 10 inches. softcover. 464 pages. This is a softcover reprint of Volume 5 in the Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding series, which was originally published in hardcover in 2019. The series has been acclaimed internationally for its thought-provoking content related to bookbinding as practiced globally over millennia. Table of Contents: Julia Miller, "Editor's Preface"; Lydia Aikenhead, "Pictures in Your Pocket: A History of..... READ MORE about SUAVE MECHANICALS: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING, VOLUME 5

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Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2026. 7 x 10 inches. softcover. 528 pages. This is a softcover reprint of Volume 6 in the Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding series, which was originally published in hardcover in 2020 and which has been out-of-print for some time. Vol. 6 is dedicated to the "memory and work of Bernard C. Middleton, MBE, who died in January 2019. In the dedicatory section, the voices of..... READ MORE about SUAVE MECHANICALS: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING, VOLUME 6

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Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2021. 4to. cloth, dust jacket. 661 pages. "The majority of Chapter 1 is a discussion of the descriptive terms and phrases Miller uses in cataloguing each entry.... This lexicon is extraordinarily useful, and will likely become the standard English-language reference for Byzantine bookbinding scholarship.... The catalogue is lavishly illustrated with high-quality, newly produced photography. Of the 100 bindings classified here, there are a total of 731 illustrations, nearly all..... READ MORE about TRADITION AND INDIVIDUALITY: BINDINGS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN GREEK MANUSCRIPT COLLECTION

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390 illustrations, full-color
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2023. 10 x 7 in. hardcover, sewn, dust jacket. 720 pages. 390 illustrations, full-color. Third edition. Enlarged and Revised and in full-color. When Books Will Speak Plain was first published in 2010, many historic bindings were at risk of being ignored, put away, and forgotten. Since then, awareness has grown, research and publishing by numerous authors on a variety of binding types has substantially increased, and the addressing of..... READ MORE about BOOKS WILL SPEAK PLAIN: A HANDBOOK FOR IDENTIFYING AND DESCRIBING HISTORICAL BINDINGS

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