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This is the seventh volume in the series and was originally published in 2022. The Suave Mechanicals series has been acclaimed internationally for its thought-provoking content related to bookbinding as practiced globally over millennia. ‘This volume of Suave Mechanicals is dedicated to Berthe van Regemorter (1879–1964). Those of us who study the structure of early codex bindings are indebted to the pioneers writing on these topics, beginning in the early part of the twentieth century – none more so than Berthe van Regemorter, who wrote a series of articles between 1946 and 1964 on a wide variety of historical binding types. She wrote about structure as much as decoration, a departure in itself. She is best described by binder, historian, and conservator Jane Greenfield, who translated Regemorter’s essays in Binding Structures in the Middle Ages: A Selection of Studies by Berthe van Regemorter (Brussels: Bibliotheca Wittockiana, 1992). Greenfield writes in the Preface to that work: ‘Berthe van Regemorter studied structure in more detail and wrote more prolifically than the few predecessors who had pointed out the road she was to follow, and which is followed by others – scholars and bookbinders – today. That she was a bookbinder, not a scholar writing about bookbinding, gave her an insight which cannot be gained by merely reading about bookbinding’.
Julia Miller, ‘Editor’s Preface’; Pablo Alvarez, ‘The Burning of the Butterfly: A Plaquette Binding at the University of Michigan Library’; Alexandra Alvis, ‘Working on the Best Material and by the Best Methods: Douglas Cockerell and Son, and the Bindery’s Work for the University of Glasgow Library’; Malina Belcheva, ‘Unveiling Secrets of the Trade: Owen Jones and the Relievo Art of The Psalms of David’; Tom Conroy, ‘A Lineage of Finishing Tool Makers in Georgian Dublin’; Arthur Green, ‘Cutting Book Edges In-Boards’; Jessica Keister and Emma Hartman, ‘Cords to Nowhere: The Bindings of Anna Atkins’ Photographs of British Algæ: Cyanotype Impressions’; Leather Discussion Group: Kristi Wright, Katharine C. Wagner, William Dean Minter and Holly Herro, ‘The Evolution of Bookbinding Leather: Past, Present, and Future’; Julia Miller, ‘The Glazier Codex (MLM MS G.67)’; Kim Norman, ‘Conserving the Historic Torahs of Congregation Mickve Israel in Savannah, Georgia’; Todd Pattison, ‘The “Prince of Binders”: Joseph T. Altemus and the Height of Publishers’ Bindings in the Mid-Nineteenth Century’; Todd Pattison and Elizabeth DeWolfe, ‘Female Labor and Industrial Growth in Nineteenth-Century American Bookbinding’; Jennifer W. Rosner, ‘“Goods and Chattels, Rights and Credits”: 1854 Inventory of the Joseph T. Altemus Bindery’; bibliographies and index.