Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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author's binding

A copy of a book to be presented by an author. Such bindings were normally produced in a superior manner; gilt vellum bindings were common in the 16th century, and panelled morocco in the 1 7th and 18th. The term has little meaning today. (69 )




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