Books about the Printing, Paper, and Bookbinding Arts
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In-Print Titles
Bookbinding
Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding
Editor: Julia Miller
[All volumes in the Suave Mechanicals series are in full color, hardcover/sewn, 10 x 7 in.; vols. 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7 are out of print.]
Vol. 2
454 pages
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
Jen Lindsay
Fine Bookbinding : a technical guide
216 pages • 266 illustrations • hardcover, sewn
​USA: $70.00 • ISBN 9781940965277
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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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Islamic Bookbinding revealed through the lens of the Montefiascone Conservation Project
Edited by Julia Miller
​272 pages • 220 illustrations • full color • softcover
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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/
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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
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.
Georgios Boudalis
On the Edge: Endbands in the Book-binding Traditions of the Eastern Mediterranean
352 pages • 424 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2022 • 9781953421111 • $80.00
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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
Julia Miller
Meeting by Accident: Selected Historical Bindings
707 pages • 717 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • DVD with 652 additional images and video • 9781940965079 • $125.00. Click here for Awards/Reviews.
Paper
Papermaker's Tears: Essays on the Art and Craft of Paper
Tatiana Ginsberg, editor
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
Paper and Colour: Dyes and Dyeing around the World
Radha Pandey, editor
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 • 2021 • 10 x 7 in. • 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 • 2017 • 9781940965048 •
$20.00
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
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 only 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
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The eBook of this title will appear later in 2025
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
Printing/Publishing
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
Making Impressions: Women in Printing and Publishing
Cathleen A. Baker • Rebecca M. Chung, editors
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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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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Alonso Víctor de Paredes’ Institution, and Origin of the Art of Printing, and General Rules for Compositors [Madrid: ca. 1680]
Pablo Alvarez, ed. & and trans.
466 pages • 212 illustrations • full color •
hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2018 •
9781940965109 • $100.00
Conservation/Bibliography / Exhibit Catalogs
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
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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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
Barbara Heritage • Ruth-Ellen St. Onge
Building the Book from Ancient Times 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.
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
Books in Sheets
In the past, The Legacy Press has occasionally ordered set of sheets (F&Gs) from the printer at the time of a title’s production. However, this practice ended with the publication of Suave Mechanicals, vol. 7, in 2021. The following are the few titles left in sets of sheets. Note: The Visionaries set of sheets has been Smyth-sewn but not trimmed. Shipping and handling (s/h) prices below are only for mailing within the U.S.A.
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Thomas | Bibliography, 1974–2020 $55 + $8 s/h = $63.00 23 left
Maret | Visionaries & Fanatics $15 + $6 s/h = $21.00 4 left
To order any sets of sheets, email thelegacypress@gmail.com. Sets of sheets are not sold through Oak Knoll Books.