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Suave Mechanicals
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28 April 2026

This is the second volume in the series and was originally published in 2015. The Suave Mechanicals series has been acclaimed internationally for its thought-provoking content related to bookbinding as practiced globally over millennia.
CRAFTS & HOBBIES / Book Printing & Binding, Book design and Bookbinding, ART / History / General, DESIGN / Decorative Arts, Antiques, vintage and collectables: books, manuscripts, ephemera and printed matter, History of art
Julia Miller, ‘Editor’s Preface’; Cathleen A. Baker, ‘Examination and Image-Capturing Techniques’; Thomas E. Conroy, ‘Binding at Midcentury: The Rivers of America Competition of 1946’; Thomas E. Conroy, ‘Bio-Bibliographical List of Individual Bookbinders’; Jim Croft, ‘Finding Suitable Wood for Book Boards and Related Considerations’; Julia Miller, ‘Puzzle Me This: Early Binding Fragments in the Papyrology Collection of the University of Michigan Library’; Rosa Scobey Moore, ‘Finding Identity on the Endpapers: Folk Traditions of Writing and Drawing in Books’; Pamela J. Spitzmueller, ‘A Visual Dictionary of Traditional Long- and Linkstitch Bookbinding Terminology’; bibliographies and index.