Suave Mechanicals

Olivia Primanis, ‘Remembrances: Bernard C. Middleton (1924–2019)’; Julia Miller, ‘Editor’s Preface’; Morgan Simms Adams, ‘Identifying Evidence of Textile Curtains in Medieval Manuscripts in the Morgan Library & Museum’; Katherine Beaty, ‘Tackets, Buckles, and Overbands: Italian Stationery Bindings of the HBS Medici Family Collection’; Elise Hochhalter and Giselle Simón, ‘Life So Far: A Book Model Collection’; Karen Jutzi, ‘A Late Coptic Binding with Bridled Leather Boards’; Consuela Metzger, Erin Hammeke and Alexander L. Ames, ‘The Faith that Binds: Swiss Anabaptist Devotional Bookbindings in Early America’; Julia Miller, ‘Modeling Ambiguity: The al-Mudil Codex (David Psalter)’; Holly Prochaska and Ashleigh Ferguson Schieszer, ‘Adding Value: Increasing Access and Visibility to Historic Binding Structures’; Randy Silverman, ‘Bernard C. Middleton, MBE (1924–2019): A Biography and Bibliography’; Shannon Zachary, ‘The Peculiar Impossibility of the Square-Back, Stiff-Spine Case Binding’; bibliographies and index.