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Books about the Printing, Paper, and Bookbinding Arts
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Suave Mechanicals
Essays on the History of Bookbinding
Vol. 2 • Julia Miller, editor
Suave Mechanicals
Essays on the History of Bookbinding
Vol. 1 • Julia Miller, editor
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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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Forthcoming Titles
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Visionaries & Fanatics
Essays on Type, Technology, and the Private Press
Russell Maret
2020
Coptic Bookbindings
in the Pierpont Morgan Library
Theodore C. Petersen
edited by Frank Trujillo
2020
The Hermitage Psalter
The Amazing Journey of an Exceptional
Byzantine Manuscript
Yury Pyatnitsky
Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann
2021
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