Suave mechanicals : essays on the history of bookbinding

V.1. Historical repair, recycling, and recovering phenomena in the Islamic bindings of the University of Michigan Library : exploring the codicological evidence / Evyn Kropf -- Protection against the evil eye? : votive offerings on Armenian manuscript bindings / Sylvie L. Merian -- Colonial blankbooks in the Winterthur Library / Consuela G. Metzger -- A primer on signed bindings / Robert J. Milevski -- Not just another beautiful book : a typology of American scaleboard bindings / Julia Miller -- Beating, rolling, and pressing : the compression of signatures in bookbinding prior to sewing / Jeffrey S. Peachey -- European influence in the binding of Mexican printed books of the sixteenth century / Martha E. Romero -- Papier-mâché bindings: "shining in black and gorgeous with pearl and gold" / Jennifer W. Rosner -- The 1715 Mohawk prayer book : a study of six copies in colonial American scaleboard bindings / John Townsend -- Author biographies.

V. 2 Examination and image-capturing techniques / Cathleen A. Baker -- Binding at midcentury : the Rivers of America competition of 1946 / Thomas E. Conroy -- Finding suitable wood for book boards and related considerations / Jim Croft -- Puzzle me this : early binding fragments in the Papyrology Collection of the University of Michigan Library / Julia Miller -- Finding identity on the endpapers : folk traditions of writing and drawing in books / Rosa Scobey Moore -- A visual dictionary of traditional long- and linkstitch bookbinding terminology / Pamela J. Spitzmueller -- Author biographies.