Suave Mechanicals

Julia Miller, ‘Editor’s Preface’; Erin Albritton and Christine Amato, ‘A Study of Two Semi-Limp Parchment Binding Styles in the Rare Book Collection at The New York Academy of Medicine Library’; Ruth Bardenstein, ‘Historical Bindings of the Chamberlain-Warren Samaritan Collection’; Ana Beny and Kristine Rose Beers, ‘An Inspiration for Conservation: An Historic Andalusi Binding Structure’; Ashley Cataldo, ‘“A Swarm of Binders”: Isaiah Thomas’s Bookbinding Network, 1782–1818’; Marco di Bella, ‘From Box Binding to Envelope-Flap Binding: The Missing Link in Transitional Islamic Bookbinding’; Louise L. Foster, ‘The Nineteenth-Century American Pocket Diary’; Bill Hanscom, ‘Towards a Morphology of the Ethiopian Book Satchel’; Hedi Kyle, ‘The Fold: Evolution, Function, and Inspiration’; Arielle Middleman and Todd Pattison, ‘Benjamin Bradley and the “Profitable Stroke”: Binding Six Months in a Convent and the Need for Copy-Specific Cataloging of Nineteenth-Century Publishers’ Bindings’; bibliographies and index