This is a softcover reprint of Volume 7 in the Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding series, which was originally published in hardcover in 2022 and which has been out-of-print for some time. This volume is "dedicated to Berthe van Regemorter (1879-1964). Those of us who study the structure of early codex bindings are indebted to the pioneers writing on these topics, beginning in the early part of the twentieth century - none more so than Berthe van Regemorter, who wrote a series of articles between 1946 and 1964 on a wide variety of historical binding types. She wrote about structure as much as decoration, a departure in itself."

Contents: Julia Miller, "Editor's Preface"; Pablo Alvarez, "The Burning of the Butterfly: A Plaquette Binding at the University of Michigan Library"; Alexandra Alvis, "Working on the Best Material and by the Best Methods: Douglas Cockerell and Son, and the Bindery's Work for the University of Glasgow Library"; Malina Belcheva, "Unveiling Secrets of the Trade: Owen Jones and the Relievo Art of The Psalms of David"; Tom Conroy, "A Lineage of Finishing Tool Makers in Georgian Dublin"; Arthur Green, "Cutting Book Edges In-Boards"; Jessica Keister and Emma Hartman, "Cords to Nowhere: The Bindings of Anna Atkins' Photographs of British Algæ: Cyanotype Impressions"; Leather Discussion Group: Kristi Wright, Katharine C. Wagner, William Dean Minter and Holly Herro, "The Evolution of Bookbinding Leather: Past, Present, and Future"; Julia Miller, "The Glazier Codex (MLM MS G.67)"; Kim Norman, "Conserving the Historic Torahs of Congregation Mickve Israel in Savannah, Georgia"; Todd Pattison, "The 'Prince of Binders': Joseph T. Altemus and the Height of Publishers' Bindings in the Mid-Nineteenth Century"; Todd Pattison and Elizabeth DeWolfe, "Female Labor and Industrial Growth in Nineteenth-Century American Bookbinding"; Jennifer W. Rosner, "'Goods and Chattels, Rights and Credits': 1854 Inventory of the Joseph T. Altemus Bindery"; bibliographies and index.