The Legacy Press

Books about the Printing, Paper, and Bookbinding Arts

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Waters Rising: Letters from Florence

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The Legacy Press

Books about the Printing, Paper, and Bookbinding Arts

In-Print / Forthcoming Titles

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© 1997 – 2017

The Legacy Press

Yours Respectfully, William Berwick

Paper Conservation in the United States and

Western Europe, 1800 to 1935

Christine A. Smith

Suave Mechanicals

Essays on the History of Bookbinding

Vol. 2 • Julia Miller, editor

Hanji Unfurled

One Journey into Korean Papermaking

Aimee Lee

From the Hand to the Machine

Nineteenth-Century American Paper and Mediums: Technologies, Materials, and Conservation

Cathleen A. Baker

Suave Mechanicals

Essays on the History of Bookbinding

Vol. 1 • Julia Miller, editor

Killing Green

An Account of Hand Papermaking in China

Elaine Koretsky

Endgrain Designs & Repetitions

The Pattern Papers of John DePol

Cathleen A. Baker • John DePol

Suave Mechanicals

Essays on the History of Bookbinding

Volume 3 • Julia Miller, editor

Books Will Speak Plain

A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings

Julia Miller

Waters Rising:

Letters from Florence

Sheila Waters

A Song of Praise for Shifu

Shifu Sanka

Susan J. Byrd

The Art and Science of Healing

From Antiquity to the Renaissance

Pablo Alvarez

February 2017

They Made the Paper at Tuckenhay Mill

Interviews with Retires Hand Papermakers

Peter and Donna Thomas

2nd edition

2017

Alonso Víctor de Paredes’

Institution, and Origin of the Art of Printing, and General Rules for the Compositor (Madrid, 1680): A New Translation

Pablo Alvarez

2017

The Green Family of Papermakers

and Hayle Mill

Maureen P. Green

2017

Western Papermaking

Traditions, Tools, and Techniques

Timothy D. Barrett

2018

Disciplining Conservation

Paul N. Banks and the Moorings of Library and Archives Conservation Education

Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa

2017

The Hermitage Psalter

The Amazing Journey of an

Exceptional Byzantine Manuscript

Yury Pyatnitsky

Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann

2018

Suave Mechanicals

Essays on the History of Bookbinding

Vol. 4 • Julia Miller, editor

2017

Suave Mechanicals

Essays on the History of Bookbinding

Vol. 5 • Julia Miller, editor

2018