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Suave mechanicals: essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 7

Suave mechanicals: essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 7
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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
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