SUAVE MECHANICALS: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING, VOLUME 3.
- Ann Arbor, MI: Legacy Press, 2016.
- 4to
- cloth, dust jacket
- 350 pages
- ISBN: 9781940965024
Price: $85.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 132197
This collection of essays, published as the third volume of a series of studies on the history of bookbinding, sets a high standard for interesting and groundbreaking scholarship in the history of books.
Erin Albritton & Christina Amato, A Study of Two Semi-Limp Parchment Binding Styles in the Rare Book Collection at The New York Academy of Medicine Library
Ruth Bardenstein, Historical Bindings of the Chamberlain-Warren Samaritan Collection
Ana Beny & Kristine Rose Beers, An Inspiration for Conservation: An Historic Andalusi Binding Structure
Ashley Cataldo, A Swarm of Binders: Isaiah Thomass Bookbinding Network, 17821818
Marco di Bella, From Box Binding to Envelope-Flap Binding: The Missing Link in Transitional Islamic Bookbinding
Louise L. Foster, The Nineteenth-Century American Pocket Diary
Bill Hanscom, Towards a Morphology of the Ethiopian Book Satchel
Hedi Kyle, The Fold: Evolution, Function, and Inspiration
Arielle Middleman & Todd Pattison, Benjamin Bradley and the Profitable Stroke: Binding Six Months in a Convent and the Need for Copy-Specific Cataloging of Nineteenth-Century Publishers Bindings
An accompanying DVD (included) contains additional photographs.