brighter binding
A movement initiated in about 1910 in Great
Britain by Alexander Philip to encourage libraries
to have their books bound in bright. colorful
cloth, so as to enliven the appearance of the then
drab and colorless bookstacks in the libraries of
that time. The belief was that bright bindings
meant bright cheerful libraries, whereas a library
filled with dark blue and black bindings had the
opposite effect. Se also: BINDING SCHEMES . (261 )
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