Volumes accompanied by supplemental DVD-ROMs containing additional illustrations, with descriptions, for the texts. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
volume 2. Visual dictionary of traditional long- and linkstitch bookbinding terminology / Pamela J. Spitzmueller. Protection against the evil eye? : votive offerings on Armenian manuscript bindings / Sylvie R. Merian ; Colonial blankbooks in the Winterthur Library / Consuela G. Metzger ; Primer on signed bindings / Robert J. Milevski ; Not just another beautiful book : a typography of American scaleboard bindings / Julia Miller ; Beating, rolling, and pressing : the compression of signatures in bookbinding prior to sewing / Jeffrey S. Peachey ; European influence in the binding of Mexican printed books of the sixteenth century / Martha E. Romero ; Papier-mâché bindings: "shining in black and gorgeous with pearl and gold" / Jennifer W. Rosner ; 1715 Mohawk prayer book : a study of six copies in colonial American scaleboard bindings / John Townsend -- volume 2. Examination and image-capturing techniques / Cathleen A. Baker ; Binding at mid-century : the Rivers of America competition of 1946 / Thomas E. Conroy ; Finding suitable wood for book boards and related considerations / Jim Croft ; Puzzle me this : the early binding fragments in the papyrology collection of the University of Michigan Library / Julia Miller ; Finding identity on the endpapers : folk traditions of writing and drawing in books / Rosa Scobey Moore ; Visual dictionary of traditional long- and linkstitch bookbinding terminology / Pamela J. Spitzmueller.
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