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Miller, Julia (editor)
SUAVE MECHANICALS: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING. VOL. 9.
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Ann Arbor, MI, The Legacy Press, 2025, hardcover, sewn
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Volume 9 is the last in the highly acclaimed series of Suave Mechanicals, all edited by Julia Miller. This volume features 16 essays on a wide range of subjects, all centered on bookbinding. The essays and authors are:
- Whitney Baker: Keeping the Books: Italian Stationery Bindings in the Rubinstein Collection of the Orsetti Family Business Archive at the University of Kansas
- Guilherme Canhão: Portuguese Gothic Binding: A Foral Charter from the Sixteenth Century
- Ashley Cataldo: Extension of Use: An Exploration of Printed and Manuscript Waste in Early American Bookbinding
- Kyle A. Clark: Bookbinding Education in American Degree- and Diploma-Awarding Institutions
- Tom Conroy: A Synoptic List of Jean Eschmann's Post-Cranbrook Fine Bindings
- Tom Conroy: The Singer of Tales in Scottish Bookbinding: Layout, Design, and Social Function of an Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh "Wheel" Binding
- Amy Crist: A Technical Analysis of European Musical Partbooks Bound in Paper
- Steffi Dippold: The Gender of Binding; or the Matriarchive of the Wampanoag Bible
- Anna Embree: Best Practices for Making Models of Historic Books
- Anne McLain: Hidden Treasures: Searching for Scottish Wheel and Herringbone Bindings in Harvard Libraries' Collections
- John Nove: Like a Fly in Amber: Analysis of a Group of Early American Scaleboard Schoolbooks
- Todd Pattison: How Did They Do That? The Role of Thoughtful Deconstruction in Understanding and Communicating Bookbinding Structure
- Jeffrey S. Peachey: Reading a Blank Book Filled with Mistakes: What Structural Evidence, Technical Manuals, and Craft Can Teach Us about an Eighteenth-Century French Bookbinding
- Olivia Primanis: What's in a Cover: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Commercial Photograph Albums
- Richard L. Saunders: Bookbinding in Isolation: Lessons from the John B. Kelly Ledgers, Salt Lake City, 1853-1867
- Jay Tanner: Marguerite Loeb - America's First Designer Bookbinder?
Ann Arbor, MI: The Legacy Press, 2025; 10 x 7 inches, hardcover, sewn; 832 pages. ISBN 9781940965314. Book # 142025
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