Binding terminology

Replying to Bob Futernick's query about standardized terminology to
describe bindings:

The following information is not what BF had in mind if he is looking
for an extant list of terms that could be checked off, but the following
information may be useful in compiling such a list or may be at least
interesting.

Compiled from a different point of view (the library rare book
cataloguer's) is BINDING TERMS: A THESAURUS FOR USE IN RARE BOOK AND
SPECIAL COLLECTION CATALOGUING, prepared by the Standards Committee of
the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, ACRL/ALA (Chicago: Association
of College and Research Libraries, 1988), 35pp. Available from the
American Library Association for $8.50.

Compiled from a historical point of view is "A Multilingual Glossary for
the Description of Paper-Covered Books" in Michele Cloonan's
dissertation PAPER-COVERED BOOKS, FROM THEIR FIRST KNOWN USE IN 1482 TO
THE INTRODUCTION OF CLOTH, CA. 1825 (Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign, 1988), a dissertation that is a mine of important
information.  Available from University Microfilms International, order
number 8823107.

Then there is, of course, as a recent example of a standard general
glossary, the well-known BOOKDINDING AND THE CONSERVATION OF BOOKS: A
DICTIONARY OF DESCRIPTIVE TERMINOLOGY (Washington: Library of Congress,
1982), compiled by Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington, which is
obviously far from a conveniently extant checklist.

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