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Suave Mechanicals
Essays on the History of Bookbinding
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Suave Mechanicals
Essays on the History of Bookbinding
Vol. 1 • Julia Miller, editor
From the Hand to the Machine
Nineteenth-Century American Paper and Mediums: Technologies, Materials, and Conservation
Cathleen A. Baker
Killing Green
An Account of Hand Papermaking in China
Elaine Koretsky
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