RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Binding Terms

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Categories of bindings/Occasions for binding (Gathering term;do not assign)

. Contemporary bindings

. Original covers

.     SN: For examples of original covers as issued by the
. bookseller, publisher, etc.

. Presentation bindings

. Prize bindings

. Proprietary bindings

.     SN: Gathering term; do not use; index under a narrower term.

.. Apollo and Pegasus bindings

.. Armorial bindings

..     SN: Bindings with a coat of arms, or any part of a coat of
.. arms, e.g., a crest.

.. Cottonian Library book covers

..     SN: Robert Southey’s cloth book covers.

.. Hollis bindings

.. Middle Hill boards

..     SN: Found on books and manuscripts bound for Sir Thomas
.. Phillipps' library at Middle Hill. The usual style is a drab colored paper over millboard, without pastedowns or other endpapers. The text block is sewn on two cords, which are laced through the boards. Phillipps'
.. shelf-mark is usually present in the form: [Roman
.. numeral].[lowercase letter].[Arabic numeral].

.. Monogrammed bindings

.. Royal bindings

.. Settle bindings

. Publishers' bindings

.. Printed boards

.. Publishers' cloth bindings

... Embossed cloth bindings

.... Ribbon-embossed cloth bindings

....     HN: Term added 7/00.

....     SN: Use for cloth bindings embossed by machines used to emboss
.... ribbons, thereby giving the bindings a raised, often floral
.... pattern.

... Pictorial cloth bindings

... Pre-ornamented cloth bindings

...     HN: Term added 01/01.

...     SN: Use for cloth bindings produced ca. 1835-1846,
... characterized by a central ornament in which the cloth was
... ornamented before the case was made, as described by Krupp
... & Rosner,
... "Pre-Ornamented Bookcloth on Nineteenth-Century Cloth Bindings,"
... PBSA 94:2.

.. Publishers' paper bindings

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