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Suave mechanicals: essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 8

Suave mechanicals: essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 8
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ISBN 9781940965246 (hardcover)
Title Suave mechanicals : essays on the history of bookbinding : volume 8 / Julia Miller, editor
Publisher Ann Arbor, MI : Legacy Press, 2023
Physical desc. 525 pages ; illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Note Volume dedicated to Pamela Spitzmueller.
References to CB manuscripts: page 250, note 45 (Cpt 814); page 461, note 8 (Is 1564).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Two groups of newly discovered bookbinders' finishing tool makers / Tom Conroy -- Jean Eschmann, 1896-1961 / Tom Conroy -- Caoutchouc bindings: the origin and application of a rubber-based adhesive in nineteenth-century gift books / Sue Donovan -- A complete Coptic codex: a material study and conservation approach of a relatively unknown bound papyrus manuscript / Eliza Jacobi, Karin Scheper, Eve Menei -- Coptic bookbindings from Edfu in the British Library: a reappraisal / Jen Lindsay -- Puzzle me again: a comparison of two early Coptic bindings: Nag Hammadi Codex II and P. Bodmer XXIII / Julia Miller -- As good as it needs to be: the myth of contemporary covers in American book production, 1700-1850 / Todd Pattison -- 'The binder's curse': John Bradford and early nineteenth-century American bookbinding / Jeffrey S. Peachey -- Between bag and box: characteristics and conservation issues of the Islamic slipcase / David Plummer, Paul Hepworth, Karin Scheper.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Cpt 814
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- Is 1564
Bookbinding -- History
Coptic bookbinding
Islamic bookbinding
Bookbinders -- History
Rare books -- Conservation and restoration
Books -- Conservation and restoration
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