SUAVE MECHANICALS: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING, VOLUME 8

Miller, Julia (editor)

Published by The Legacy Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 2023

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7 x 10 inches. cloth, dust jacket. 528 pages. The most recent volume of this critically acclaimed series on bookbinding includes the following essays: - Two Groups of Newly Discovered Bookbinders Finishing Tool Makers by Tom Conroy - Jean Eschmann, 1896-1961 by Tom Conroy - Caoutchouc Bindings: The Origin and Application of a Rubber-Based Adhesive in Nineteenth-Century Gift Books by Sue Donovan - A Complete Coptic Codex: A Material Study and Conservation Approach of a Relatively Unknown Bound Papyrus Manuscript by Eliza Jacobi, Karin Scheper, and Eve Menei - Coptic Bookbindings from Edfu in The British Library: A Reappraisal by Jen Lindsay - Puzzle Me Again: A Comparison of Two Early Coptic Bindings - Nag Hammadi Codex II and P. Bodmer XXIII by Julia Miller - As Good as It Needs to Be: The Myth of Temporary Covers in American Book Production, 1700-1850 by Todd Pattison - "The Binders Curse": John Bradford and Early Nineteenth-Century American Bookbinding by Jeffrey S. Peachey - Between Bag and Box: Characteristics and Conservation Issues of the Islamic Slipcase by David Plummer, Paul Hepworth, and Karin Scheper. Seller Inventory # 139557

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Title: SUAVE MECHANICALS: ESSAYS ON THE HISTORY OF ...

Publisher: The Legacy Press, Ann Arbor, MI

Publication Date: 2023

Binding: cloth, dust jacket

Illustrator: Bookbinding

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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