SUAVE MECHANICALS: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING, VOLUME 4.
- Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2026.
- 7 x 10 inches
- softcover
- 352 pages
- ISBN: 9781940965437
Price: $65.00 other currencies
Order Nr. 142846
This is a softcover reprint of Volume 4 in the Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding series, which was originally published in hardcover in 2017 and which has been out-of-print for some time. 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"; Ashley Cataldo, "Catalog of the Finishing Tools of the Eighteenth-Century Binder Henry Bilson Legge"; Jana Dambrogio, "Trickett's Tickets"; Gary Frost, "Book Interventions: Books Remade by Use"; Marieka Kaye, "Diamond in the Rough: A Study of Kelmscott Quarter-Holland Bindings"; Emily Martin and Alice Austin, "Book Theater: The History of the Tunnel Book"; Roger Williams, "Scaleboard Wood and Potential Loss Replacement"; bibliographies and index.





