remainder binding
The business of binding unsold copies of a book
that are in sheets or gatherings. These are sold
to a jobber, bound in a different format from the
original binding, and offered for sale, sometimes
with a different title. Such bindings are usually
very economically priced. For 19th and 20th
century books, the term "remainder binding" is
used correctly only with reference to a book bound
for the wholesale book trade by someone other than
the original publisher of the book. A later (and
sometimes less expensive) publisher s binding was
a SECONDARY
BINDING . (69 ,
70 , 261 )
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