ISBN |
9781953421081 (hardcover) |
Title |
Suave mechanicals : essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 7 / Julia Miller, editor |
Publisher |
Ann Arbor, MI : Legacy Press, 2022 |
Physical desc. |
x, 610 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm. |
Note |
Volume dedicated to the memory of Berthe van Regemorter (1879-1964). |
References to CB manuscripts (pages 299-301, 311, 315, and 326): Cpt 813, Cpt 814, Cpt 815 (Mss. 'A-C'). |
Bibliography etc. |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
The burning of the butterfly: a plaquette binding at the University of Michigan Library / Pablo Alvarez -- 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 / Alexandra Alvis -- Unveiling secrets of the trade: Owen Jones and the relievo art of The Psalms of David / Malina Belcheva -- A lineage of finishing tool makers in Georgian Dublin / Tom Conroy -- Cutting book edges in-boards / Arthur Green -- Cords to nowhere: the bindings of Anna Atkins' photographs of British algae: cyanotype impressions / Jessica Keister, Emma Hartman -- The evolution of bookbinding leather: past, present, and future / Leather Discussion Group (Kristi Wright, Katharine C. Wagner, William Dean Minter, Holly Herro) -- The Glazier codex (MLM MS G.67) / Julia Miller -- Conserving the historic Torahs of Congregation Mickve Israel in Savannah, Georgia / Kim Norman -- The 'prince of binders': Joseph T. Altemus and the height of publishers' bindings in the mid-nineteenth century / Todd Pattison -- Female labor and industrial growth in nineteenth-century American bookbinding / Todd Pattison, Elizabeth DeWolfe -- 'Goods and chattels, rights and credits': 1854 inventory of the Joseph T. Altemus bindery / Jennifer W. Rosner. |
Subject |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Cpt 813 |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Cpt 814 |
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Cpt 815 |
Bookbinding -- History |
Coptic bookbinding |
Bookbinders -- History |
Rare books -- Conservation and restoration |
Books -- Conservation and restoration |
Added name(s) |
Miller, Julia |