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The Legacy Press

Books about the Printing, Paper, and Bookbinding Arts

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

In-Print / Forthcoming Titles

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

Volume 3 • Julia Miller, editor

Waters Rising:

Letters from Florence

Sheila Waters

Endgrain Designs & Repetitions

The Pattern Papers of John DePol

Cathleen A. Baker • John DePol

Suave Mechanicals

Essays on the History of Bookbinding

Vol. 2 • Julia Miller, editor

A Song of Praise for Shifu

Shifu Sanka

Susan J. Byrd

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

OP designates titles that are

Out of Print

© 1997 – 2017

The Legacy Press

Suave Mechanicals

Essays on the History of Bookbinding

Vol. 4 • Julia Miller, editor

October/November 2017

Meeting by Accident

Selected Historical Bindings

Julia Miller • late 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 • Spring 2018

The Green Family of Papermakers and Hayle Mill

Maureen P. Green • 2018

Disciplining Conservation

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

Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa • 2018

Western Papermaking

Traditions, Tools, and Techniques

Timothy D. Barrett • 2018

Suave Mechanicals

Essays on the History of Bookbinding

Vol. 5 • Julia Miller, editor

2018

Papermaker 's Tears

Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper

Vol. 1 • Tatiana Ginsberg, editor

2018

The Hermitage Psalter

The Amazing Journey of an Exceptional