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 and Image-Capturing Techniques"; Thomas E. Conroy, "Binding at Midcentury: The Rivers of America Competition of 1946"; Thomas E. Conroy, "Bio-Bibliographical List of Individual Bookbinders" (reprinted from the version on the DVD originally supplied with the hardcover edition); Jim Croft, "Finding Suitable Wood for Book Boards and Related Considerations"; Julia Miller, "Puzzle Me This: Early Binding Fragments in the Papyrology Collection of the University of Michigan Library"; Rosa Scobey Moore, "Finding Identity on the Endpapers: Folk Traditions of Writing and Drawing in Books"; Pamela J. Spitzmueller, "A Visual Dictionary of Traditional Long- and Linkstitch Bookbinding Terminology"; bibliographies and index.