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Just Published!
Papermaker's Tears
Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper
Vol. 1 • Tatiana Ginsberg, editor
Suave Mechanicals
Essays on the History of Bookbinding
Vol. 5 • Julia Miller, editor
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
Books Will Speak Plain
A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings
Julia Miller
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
Killing Green
An Account of Hand Papermaking in China
Elaine Koretsky
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Forthcoming Titles
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Impressions
Essays on the Art of Printing
Vol. 1 • Rebecca Chung, editor
2020
Suave Mechanicals
Essays on the History of Bookbinding
Vols. 6 & 7 • Julia Miller, editor
Mooring a Field
Paul N. Banks and the Education of
Library and Archives Conservators
Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa • 2019
The Hermitage Psalter
The Amazing Journey of an Exceptional
Byzantine Manuscript
Yury Pyatnitsky • Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann
2020
Coptic Bookbindings
in the Pierpont Morgan Library
Theodore C. Petersen
edited by Frank Trujillo
2020
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