Books about the Printing, Paper, and Bookbinding Arts
"Not to Deliver the Last Word, But to Start a Conversation: The Story of The Legacy Press"​​
Cathleen A. Baker​
In The Book Collector 75, no.1 (Spring 2026): 15–31.
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
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Bookbinding
Suave Mechanicals: Essays on the History of Bookbinding
Julia Miller, Series Editor
​​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 vols. 2 and 5 left.
Vol. 2
454 pages • DVD
427 illustrations
​hardcover
9780979797484
2015 • $75.00​
Vol. 5
464 pages
531 illustrations
hardcover
9781940965123
2019 • $85.00
Vol. 8
528 pages
411 illustrations
hardcover
9781940965246
2023 • $120.00
Vol. 9
832 pages
650 illustrations
hardcover
9781940965314
2025 • $160.00
The Legacy Press is pleased to announce that vols. 1–7 of Suave Mechanicals are now available in the US as softcover reprints. DVDs are not included with these reprints.
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Note: Vols. 1 through 9 are now available in the UK in softcovers; these editions are not for sale in North or South America.
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For details, links, and tables of contents, see Catalogue.
Vol. 1
536 pages
485 illustrations
softcover
9781940965413
2026 • $70.00
Vol. 2
560 pages
427 illustrations
softcover
9781940965499
2026 • $70.00
Vol. 3
520 pages
584 illustrations
softcover
9781940965420
2026 • $70.00
Vol. 4
352 pages
333 illustrations
softcover
9781940965437
2026 • $65.00
Vol. 5
464 pages
531 illustrations
softcover
9781940965505
2026 • $70.00
Vol. 6
584 pages
427 illustrations
softcover
9781940965444
2026 • $70.00
Vol. 7
368 pages
427 illustrations
softcover
9781940965451
2026 • $80.00
Bill Hanscom
Ethiopian Bookbinding Tradition
448 pages • 454 illustrations • full color • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 7 in. • 2026
​USA: $105.00 • ISBN 9781940965376
Order through Oak Knoll Books:
https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/142616
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UK: £85.00 • ISBN 9781940965468
Order through Archetype Publications:
https://archetype.co.uk/our-titles/ethiopian-bookbinding-tradition/?id=468​
Jen Lindsay
Fine Bookbinding : a technical guide
216 pages • 266 illustrations • hardcover, sewn • 10 x 9 in. • 2024
​USA: $70.00 • ISBN 9781940965277
Order through Oak Knoll Books:
https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/141072
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UK: £55.00 • ISBN 9781940965307
Order through J Hewit & Sons Ltd.:
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
Click here for Awards/Reviews.
USA: $55.00 • ISBN 9781940965253
Order through Oak Knoll Books:
https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/140983
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UK: £45.00 • ISBN 9781940965291
Order through Archetype Publications: https://archetype.co.uk/our-titles/islamic-bookbinding/?id=465​
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; see details in the Catalogue.
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; see details in the Catalogue.
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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Softcover editions available now!
USA: $65.00 • 9781940965642
Order through Oak Knoll Books:
https://www.oakknoll.com/pages/books/142841
UK: £75.00 • 9781940965475
Order through Archetype Publications:
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
Vol. 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; see details in the Catalogue.
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; see details in the Catalogue.
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; see details in the Catalogue.
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
Click here for Awards/Reviews.
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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​
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​
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; see details in the Catalogue.
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
Click here for Awards/Reviews.​
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.