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Suave mechanicals : essays on the history of bookbinding. Volume 2 / Julia Miller editor.

Contributor(s): Miller, Julia (Conservator) [editor.]Publisher: Ann Arbor, Michigan : The Legacy Press, 2015Description: x, 442 pages : illustrations + 1 DVD-ROMContent type: text Media type: unmediated | computer Carrier type: volume | computer discISBN: 0979797489; 9780979797484Other title: Essays on the history of bookbinding. Volume 2Subject(s): Bookbinding -- History | Books -- Conservation and restoration -- History | Bookbinders -- Bio-bibliographyDDC classification: 686.3009
Contents:
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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Book House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey 686.3009 SUA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 014608

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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