primary binding
The earliest of any different publisher's binding
styles found on copies of the same edition. The
term is applied only to edition bindings, and, as
a matter of practice, is seldom used with
reference to anything other than publisher's
cloth, although it could perhaps be applied to a
"boards-and-label" copy of a book published
between 1820 and 1830, assuming copies issued
later were bound in gilt-lettered cloths, i.e.,
after 1832. (69 )
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