Books about the Printing, Paper, and Bookbinding Arts
Cathleen A. Baker and Randy Silverman, eds.
From Jikji to Gutenberg: The Origins of Book Printing from Moveable Metal Type
672 pages • 400+ illustrations • full color • 10 x 7 in.
​USA: $70.00 • ISBN 9781940965390
hardcover
Order through Oak Knoll Books: TBD
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UK: £100.00 • ISBN 9781940965482
softcover
Order through Archetype Publications:
TBD​
R. Stanley Nelson
The Typefounder's Hand Mould
296 pages • 392 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in.
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Co-published with the Norwich Printing Museum.
​USA: $70.00 • ISBN 9781940965383
hardcover
Order through Oak Knoll Books: TBD
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UK: £55.00. £45 is pre-publicatoon price if ordered before July 1st. • ISBN 9781872333793
hardcover
Order through Norwich Printing Museum via Paul Nash: paul@strawberrypress.co.uk​
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In-Print Titles
Bookbinding
Announcement!
Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding
Julia Miller, Series Editor
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The Legacy Press is pleased to announce that vols. 1 through 7 of Suave Mechancials will soon be available as softcover editions in both the US and UK; see details and contents in the digital catalogue by clicking here.
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The four volumes below (2, 5, 8, and 9) are still available as hardcovers, but please note that there are only a few copies of vol. 2 and 5 left. As the hardcover editions of vols. 8 and 9 go out of print, each will be available in a softcover edition.
Vol. 2
454 pages • DVD
427 illustrations
9780979797484
2015 • $75.00
Vol. 5
464 pages
531 illustrations
9781940965123
2019 • $85.00
Vol. 8
528 pages
411 illustrations
9781940965246
2023 • $120.00
Vol. 9
832 pages
650 illustrations
9781940965314
2023 • $160.00
Bill Hanscom
Ethiopian Bookbinding Tradition
448 pages • 454 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2026
​USA: $105.00 • ISBN 9781940965376
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https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/142616
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UK: £85.00 • ISBN 9781940965468
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https://archetype.co.uk/our-titles/ethiopian-bookbinding-tradition/?id=468
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Jen Lindsay
Fine Bookbinding : a technical guide
216 pages • 266 illustrations • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 9 in. • 2024
​USA: $70.00 • ISBN 9781940965277
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https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/141072
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UK: £55.00 • ISBN 9781940965307
Order through J Hewit & Sons Ltd.:
https://www.hewit.com/news/?year=2024&month=july
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Julia Miller, editor
Islamic Bookbinding revealed through the lens of the Montefiascone Conservation Project
​272 pages • 220 illustrations • full color • softcover • 10 x 7 in. • 2024
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USA: $55.00 • ISBN 9781940965253
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UK: £45.00 • ISBN 9781940965291
Order through Archetype Publications: https://archetype.co.uk/our-titles/islamic-bookbinding/?id=465
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David Pearson
Cambridge Bookbinding, 1450–1770
344 pages • 508 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2023 • 9781940965239 • $115.00
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This title will be soon published in softcover in the UK and distributed by Archetype Publ. This edition will not be for sale in North or South America.
Julia Miller
Books Will Speak Plain: A Handbook for Identifying and Describing Historical Bindings
3rd edition, revised and enlarged
720 pages • 390 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2023 • 9781940965192 • $150.00. Click here for Awards/Reviews.
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This title will be soon published in softcover in the UK and distributed by Archetype Publ. This edition will not be for sale in North or South America.
Georgios Boudalis
On the Edge: Endbands in the Book-binding Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean
352 pages • 424 illustrations • full color
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New!
softcover editions • 10 x 7 in.
USA: $65.00 • 9781940965642
Order through Oak Knoll Books: TBD
UK: £75.00 • 9781940965475
Order through Archetype Publications:
https://archetype.co.uk/our-titles/on-the-edge/?id=471
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Gary Frost
A Crafted Typology of the Codex: Book Modelmaking as an Approach to Material Book Study
100 pages • 53 illustrations • full color • softcover • 10 x 7 in. • 2021 • 9781953421067 • $17.50
Theodore C. Petersen
Coptic Bookbindings in the Pierpont Morgan Library
Editor: Francisco H. Trujillo
532 pages • 370 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 11 x 8 in. • 2021 • 9781953421043 • $150.00
Julia Miller
Traditions and Individuality: Bindings from the University of Michigan Greek Manuscript Collection
661 pages • 731 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 11 x 8 in. • 2021 • 9781953421012 • $100.00
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Julia Miller
Meeting by Accident: Selected Historical Bindings
707 pages • 717 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2018 • DVD with 652 additional images and video • 9781940965079 • $125.00. Click here for Awards/Reviews.
Paper
Marieka Kaye • Oa Sjoblom
A Global Exploration of Birch Bark Books and Manuscripts
136 pages • 139 illustrations • full color • softcover • 10 x 7 in. • 2025 • 9781940965345 • $29.00
Aimee Lee
As Good as Our Tools: Equipment and Tool Makers for Hand Papermaking
304 pages • 390 illustrations • full color • softcover • 10 x 7 in. • 2025 • 9781940965338 • $48.00
Winner of the 2025 Eric Hoffer Book Award in the Art Category
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Lynn Sures and Michelle Samour
Radical Paper: Art and Invention with Colored Pulp
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440 pages • 342 full-colored images • hardcover, sewn • 12 x 9 in. • 2024 • 9781940965260 • $75.00
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Tatiana Ginsberg, editor
Papermaker's Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper
Volume 2
288 pages • 327 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • sheet of watermarked paper made by Nicholas Yeager • 2023 • 9781940965222 • $95.00
Ibe Kyoko • Elise Thoron
The Way of Washi Tales
232 pages • 210 illustrations • full color •
softcover • 10 x 7 in. • 2023 • 9781940965208 • $45.00
Alan Isaac
'Morris Marbles': Oxford's Paper Marbler, Edward Webster Morris (1842–1919)
224 pages • 92 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2023 •
9781940965215 • $80.00
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This title will be soon published in softcover in the UK and distributed by Archetype Publ. This edition will not be for sale in North or South America.
Radha Pandey, editor
Paper and Colour: Dyes and Dyeing around the World
296 pages • 355 illustrations • full color •
softcover • 10 x 7 in. • 2022 • 9781953421098 • $45.00
Richard L. Saunders
Reams in the Desert: Papermaking in Utah, 1849–1891
196 pages • 58 illustrations • full color • softcover • 9 x 6 in. • 2021 • 9781953421074 • $25.00
Timothy D. Barrett
European Hand Papermaking: Traditions, Tools, and Techniques
352 pages • 394 illustrations • softcover, 2nd edition, 2nd printing • 10 x 7 in. • 2021 • 9781940965130 • $55.00
​Aimee Lee
Hanji Unfurled: One Journey into Korean Papermaking
208 pages • 320 illustrations • full color • soft-cover edition, 2nd printing • 10 x 7 in. • 2021 • 9781953421050 • $35.00. Click here for Awards/Reviews.
Peter and Donna Thomas
They Made the Paper at Tuckenhay Mill: Interviews with Retired Hand Papermakers
118 pages • 38 illustrations • black & white • softcover • 10 x 7 in. • 2017 • 9781940965048 • $20.00
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This title will be soon published in softcover in the UK and distributed by Archetype Publ. This edition will not be for sale in North or South America.
Maureen P. Green
The Green Family of Papermakers and Hayle Mill
292 pages • 44 illustrations • black & white/color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2018 • 9781940965093 • $55.00
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This title will be soon published in softcover in the UK and distributed by Archetype Publ. This edition will not be for sale in North or South America.
Susan J. Byrd
A Song of Praise for Shifu: Shifu Sanka
412 pages • 490 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2013 • 9780979797422. Click here for Awards/Reviews.
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NB: Title is available from the author; email: susanjbyrd-book@yahoo.com
Cathleen A. Baker
From the Hand to the Machine. Nineteenth-Century American Paper and Mediums: Technologies, Materials, and Conservation
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OUT OF PRINT​ : Contact The Legacy Press for access to a free pdf: thelegacypress@gmail.com
Printing / Publishing
Katherine M. Ruffin
A Printer with My Hands: The Life and Work of Carl P. Rollins
216 pages • 81 illustrations • full color • cloth, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2025 • 9781940965352 • $55.00
Georgia B. Barnhill, editor
Charles Hart's Lithography: Its Theory and Practice
248 pages • 66 illustrations • full color • cloth, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2025 • 9781940965321 • $65.00
Russell Maret
Visionaries & Fanatics and Other Essays on Type Design, Technology, & the Private Press
143 pages • 337 illustrations • full color •
10 x 7 in. • 2021
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hardcover with type specimen
9781953421029 • $70.00
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softcover, no specimen
9781953421036 • $35.00
Cathleen A. Baker • Rebecca M. Chung, eds.
Making Impressions: Women in Printing and Publishing
340 pages • 220 illustrations • full color • softcover • 10 x 7 in. • 2020 • 9781953421005 • $70.00
James Horton
Commercial Wood Engraving in the 20th Century
224 pages • 307 illustrations • full color •
softcover • 8.5 x 8.5 in. • 2020 •
9781940965185 • $60.00
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Pablo Alvarez, ed. & and trans.
Alonso Víctor de Paredes’ Institution, and Origin of the Art of Printing, and General Rules for Compositors [Madrid: ca. 1680]
466 pages • 212 illustrations • full color •
hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2018 •
9781940965109 • $100.00
Cathleen A. Baker • John DePol
Endgrain Designs & Repetitions: The Pattern Papers of John DePol
174 pages • 117 patterns, black & red • hardcover, sewn • 9 x 6 in. • 2015 • 9780979797491 • $20.00
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Conservation / Bibliography / Catalogs / Miscellaneous
Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann
The Hand Decays, the Writing Remains: Byzantine Scribes and Their Manuscripts
272 pages • 100+ illustrations • full-color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2025 •
9781940965369 • $65.00
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This title will be soon published in softcover in the UK and distributed by Archetype Publ. This edition will not be for sale in North or South America.
Peter & Donna Thomas
Peter and Donna Bibliography, 1974–2020
446 pages • 946 illustrations • full-color • hardcover, sewn • 8.5 x 8.5 in. • 2021 •
9781940965178 • $100.00
Ellen Cunningham-Kruppa
Mooring a Field: Paul N. Banks and the Education of Library and Archives Conservators
294 pages • 50 illustrations • softcover • 9 x 6 in. • 2019/2024 • 9781940965284 • $65.00
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Christine A. Smith
Yours Respectfully, William Berwick: Paper Conservation in the United States and Western Europe, 1800 to 1935
696 pages • 112 illustrations • hardcover,
sewn • 11 x 8 in. • 2016 • 9781940965017 • $90.00. Click here for Awards/Reviews.
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NB: Piece of silking used to conserve George Washington’s Last Will and Testament is available, email: thelegacypress@gmail.com
Pablo Alvarez
The Art and Science of Healing: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
152 pages • 125 illustrations • full color •
hardcover, sewn • 12 x 9 in. • 2017 • 9781940965031 • $35.00
Barbara Heritage • Ruth-Ellen St. Onge
Building the Book from the Ancient World to the Present Day. Illustrated from the Teaching Collections of Rare Book School at the University of Virginia
334 pages • 262 illustrations • full color •
hardcover, sewn • 11 x 8 in. • 2022 •
9781953421104 • $44.95
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NB: This book is distributed by the University of Virginia Press.
Books in Sheets
In the past, The Legacy Press ordered set of sheets (F&Gs) of a few books from the printer at the time of a title’s production. The following is the only title left in sets of sheets. Shipping and handling (s/h) price is only for mailing within the U.S.A.
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Thomas | Bibliography, 1974–2020 $55 + $9 s/h = $64.00 22 left
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To order set(s) of sheets, email thelegacypress@gmail.com. These are not sold through Oak Knoll Books.