Suave mechanicals : essays on the history of bookbinding. Volume 2 / Essays on the history of bookbinding. Volume 2 Julia Miller editor. - x, 442 pages : illustrations + 1 DVD-ROM.

Accompanying DVD-ROM inside back cover comprises additional text and images that complement the essays by Conroy, Croft, and Miller.

Examination and image-capturing techniques / Cathleen A. Baker -- Binding at midcentury: The Rivers of America Competition of 1946 / Thomas E. Conroy -- Finding suitable wood for book boards and related considerations / Jim Croft -- Puzzle me this: early binding fragments in the papyrology collection of the University of Michigan Library / Julia Miller -- Finding identity on the endpapers: folk traditions of writing and drawing in books / Rosa Scobey Moore -- A visual dictionary of traditional long- and linkstitch bookbinding terminology / Pamela J. Spitzmueller

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Bookbinding--History.
Books--Conservation and restoration--History.
Bookbinders--Bio-bibliography.

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