Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding, Volume 2

This collection, published as a series of studies on the history of bookbinding, sets a high standard for interesting and groundbreaking scholarship in the history of the book. Extensively illustrated, with an additional DVD containing more text and images.

• Cathleen A. Baker: Examination and Image-Capturing Techniques
• Thomas E. Conroy: Binding at Midcentury: The Rivers of America Competition of 1946
• Thomas E. Conroy: Bio-Bibliographical List of Individual Bookbinders (on DVD)
• Jim Croft: Finding Suitable Wood for Book Boards and Related Considerations (also on DVD)
• Julia Miller: Puzzle Me This: Early Binding Fragments in the Papyrology Collection of the University of Michigan Library (additional images on DVD)
• Rosa Scobey Moore: Finding Identity on the Endpapers: Folk Traditions of Writing and Drawing in Books
• Pamela J. Spitzmueller: A Visual Dictionary of Traditional Long- and Linkstitch Bookbinding Terminology