Suave Mechanicals

Julia Miller, ‘Editor’s Preface’; Evyn Kropf, ‘Historical Repair, Recycling, and Recovering Phenomena in the Islamic Bindings of the University of Michigan Library: Exploring the Codicological Evidence’; Sylvie L. Merian, ‘Protection against the Evil Eye? Votive Offerings on Armenian Manuscript Bindings’; Consuela G. Metzger, ‘Colonial Blankbooks in the Winterthur Library’; Robert J. Milevski, ‘A Primer on Signed Bindings’; Julia Miller, ‘Not Just Another Beautiful Book: A Typology of American Scaleboard Bindings’; ‘Jeffrey S. Peachey, ‘Beating, Rolling, and Pressing: The Compression of Signatures in Bookbinding Prior to Sewing’; Martha E. Romero, ‘European Influence in the Binding of Mexican Printed Books of the Sixteenth Century’; Jennifer W. Rosner, ‘Papier-Mâché Bindings: “Shining in Black and Gorgeous with Pearl and Gold”’; John Townsend, ‘The 1715 Mohawk Prayer Book: A Study of Six Copies in Colonial American Scaleboard Bindings’; bibliographies and index.