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 the American Tintype Album"; Ruth Bardenstein, "Samaritan Manuscript Bindings from Four Collections in the United States"; Jim Bloxam and Shaun Thompson, "A Previously Unrecorded Sewing Technique Deciphered during a Study of a Twelfth-Century, Limp Tawed-Skin Binding"; Bexx Caswell and Patrick Olson, "Germany and the Modernization of Bookbinding: Evidence from Michigan State University's Criminology Collection"; Peter Geraty, "A Manual Approach to Stiff-Board Parchment Binding"; Kathleen Kiefer, Barbara Korbel and Eva-Maria Schuchardt, "Picking Up the Thread: A Study of Bookbinding Canvas"; Todd Pattison and Graham Patten, "Confusing the Case: Books Bound with Adhered Boards, 1760-1860"; Karin Scheper, "Endband Varieties in the Islamic World"; bibliographies and index.