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Suave mechanicals: essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 1

Suave mechanicals: essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 1
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ISBN 0979797454 (hbk.)
9780979797453 (hbk.)
Title Suave mechanicals : essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 1 / Julia Miller, editor
Publisher Ann Arbor, MI : Legacy Press, 2013
Physical desc. xi, [1], 522 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm. + + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.)
Note Includes DVD of additional images.
DVD held at the RL Desk.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Historical repair, recycling, and recovering phenomena in the Islamic bindings of the University of Michigan Library: exploring the codicological evidence / Evyn Kropf -- Protection against the evil eye? votive offerings on Armenian manuscript bindings / Sylvie L. Merian -- Colonial blankbooks in the Winterthur Library / Consuela G. Metzger -- A primer on signed bindings / Robert J. Milevski -- Not just another beautiful book: a typology of American scaleboard bindings / Julia Miller -- Beating, rolling, and pressing: the compression of signatures in bookbinding prior to sewing / Jeffrey S. Peachey -- European influence in the binding of Mexican printed books of the sixteenth century / Martha E. Romero -- Papier-mâché bindings: 'shining in black and gorgeous with pearl and gold' / Jennifer W. Rosner -- The 1715 Mohawk prayer book: a study of six copies in colonial American scaleboard bindings / John Townsend.
Subject Bookbinding -- History
Islamic bookbinding
Bookbinding -- Silver binding -- Armenia (Republic)
Jewelled bindings -- Armenia (Republic)
Codicology
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