This is the ninth and last volume in the series; it was originally published in 2025. The Suave Mechanicals series has been acclaimed internationally for its thought-provoking content related to bookbinding as practiced globally over millennia.
This book is published by The Legacy Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
This edition is distributed by Archetype Publications outside of the Americas.
Julia Miller, ‘Editor’s Preface’; Whitney Baker, ‘Keeping the Books: Italian Stationery Bindings in the Rubinstein Collection of the Orsetti Family Business Archive at the University of Kansas’; Guilherme Canhão, ‘Portuguese Gothic Binding: A Foral Charter from the Sixteenth Century’; Ashley Cataldo, ‘Extension of Use: An Exploration of Printed and Manuscript Waste in Early American Bookbinding’; Kyle A. Clark, ‘Bookbinding Education in American Degree- and Diploma-Awarding Institutions’; Tom Conroy, ‘A Synoptic List of Jean Eschmann’s Post-Cranbrook Fine Bindings’; Tom Conroy, ‘The Singer of Tales in Scottish Bookbinding: Layout, Design, and Social Function of an Eighteenth-Century Edinburgh “Wheel” Binding’; Amy Crist, ‘A Technical Analysis of European Musical Partbooks Bound in Paper’; Steffi Dippold, ‘The Gender of Binding; or the Matriarchive of the Wampanoag Bible’; Anna Embree, ‘Best Practices for Making Models of Historic Books’; Anne McLain, ‘Hidden Treasures: Searching for Scottish Wheel and Herringbone Bindings in Harvard Libraries’ Collections’; John Nove, ‘Like a Fly in Amber: Analysis of a Group of Early American Scaleboard Schoolbooks’; Todd Pattison, ‘How Did They Do That? The Role of Thoughtful Deconstruction in Understanding and Communicating Bookbinding Structure’; Jeffrey S. Peachey, ‘Reading a Blank Book Filled with Mistakes: What Structural Evidence, Technical Manuals, and Craft Can Teach Us about an Eighteenth-Century French Bookbinding’; Olivia Primanis, ‘What’s in a Cover: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Commercial Photograph Albums’; Richard L. Saunders, ‘Bookbinding in Isolation: Lessons from the John B. Kelly Ledgers, Salt Lake City, 1853–1867’; Jay Tanner, ‘Marguerite Loeb – America’s First Designer Bookbinder?’; bibliographies and index.
