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Suave mechanicals: essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 3

Suave mechanicals: essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 3
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ISBN 9781940965024 (hbk.)
Title Suave mechanicals : essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 3 / Julia Miller, editor
Publisher Ann Arbor, MI : Legacy Press, 2016
Physical desc. xi, 504 p. ; ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm. + + 1 DVD (4 3/4 in.)
Note Includes DVD of additional images.
DVD held at the RL Desk.
CBL illustrations: p. 183, fig. 6 (cover of T 459); p. 184, fig. 7 (cover of T 453); p. 185, fig. 8 (cover of T 435); p. 186-187, figs. 9a-f (endband and spine of T 462).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A study of two semi-limp parchment binding styles in the rare book collection at the New York Academy of Medicine Library / Erin Albritton and Christina Amato -- Historical bindings of the Chamberlain-Warren Samaritan collection / Ruth Bardenstein -- An inspiration for conservation: an historic Andalusi binding structure / Ana Beny and Kristine Rose Beers -- 'A swarm of binders': Isaiah Thomas's bookbinding network, 1782-1818 / Ashley Cataldo -- From box binding to envelope-flap binding: the missing link in transitional Islamic bookbinding / Marco di Bella -- The nineteenth-century American pocket diary / Louise L. Foster -- Towards a morphology of the Ethiopian book satchel / Bill Hanscom -- The fold: evolution, function, and inspiration / Hedi Kyle -- Benjamin Bradley and the 'profitable stroke': binding Six months in a convent and the need for copy-specific cataloguing of nineteenth-century publishers' bindings / Arielle Middleman and Todd Pattison.
Subject Bookbinding -- History
Islamic bookbinding
Bookbinders -- History
Rare books -- Conservation and restoration
Books -- Conservation and restoration
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