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Suave mechanicals: essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 5

Suave mechanicals: essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 5
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ISBN 9781940965123 (hbk.)
1940965128 (hbk.)
Title Suave mechanicals : essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 5 / Julia Miller, editor
Publisher Ann Arbor, MI : Legacy Press, 2019
Physical desc. xi, 450 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Note Includes an envelope containing hemp and linen samples, in connection with the essay Picking up the thread: a study of bookbinding canvas / Kathleen Kiefer, Barbara Korbel, and Eva-Maria Schuchardt (pages 198-227).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Editor's preface / Julia Miller -- Pictures in your pocket: a history of the American tintype album / Lydia Aikenhead -- Samaritan manuscript bindings from four collections in the United States / Ruth Bardenstein -- A previously unrecorded sewing technique deciphered during a study of a twelfth-century, limp tawed-skin binding / Jim Bloxam, Shaun Thompson -- Germany and the modernization of bookbinding: evidence from Michigan State University's criminology collection / Bexx Caswell, Patrick Olson -- A manual approach to stiff-board parchment binding / Peter Geraty -- Picking up the thread: a study of bookbinding canvas / Kathleen Kiefer, Barbara Korbel, Eva-Maria Schuchardt -- Confusing the case: books bound with adhered boards, 1760-1860 -- Endband varieties in the Islamic world / Karin Scheper.
Subject Bookbinding -- History
Islamic bookbinding
Bookbinders -- History
Rare books -- Conservation and restoration
Books -- Conservation and restoration
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