RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Binding Terms

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Styles (Gathering term; do not assign)

. HN:

. SN: Use for bindings produced during the 1920s and 1930s, in
. Art Deco style, often characterized by sleek, geometric, or
. stylized forms.

. Cathedral bindings

. Centerpiece and cornerpiece bindings

. Centerpieces (Designs)

. Coptic bindings

. Cornerpieces (Designs)

. Cosway bindings

. Cottage style bindings

. Dentelle bindings

. Etruscan bindings

. SN: An English binding style used from the 1770s through the
. first few decades of the nineteenth century. Characterized
. by an outer border of palmettes created by acid staining,
. and a central panel which is usually tree calf.

. Fan style bindings

.. Scottish wheel design bindings

. Fanfare bindings

. Greek style bindings

. CM: Points of this fashion include the use of wooden boards,
. with grooved edges; smooth backs, with no bands showing
. through; raised headcaps at top and bottom of the back,
. containing a double row of sewn headbands; edges of the
. leaves cut flush with the boards; clasps made of braided
. leather, catching on pins protruding from the edge of the
. boards of the upper covers."--Needham.

. Grotesque bindings

. SN: 16th century; decorated with grotesque figures, usually
. classical.

. Interlace bindings

. Islamic bindings

. Jansenist style bindings

. SN: Bindings decorated with Masonic motifs; primarily late 18th
. and early 19th centuries.

. Mosaic bindings

. Mudéjar bindings

. CM: A Spanish binding style, used in the 13th-15th centuries,
. "with Islamic decorative schemes: elaborate geometric interlace bands against a background entirely filled with hundreds of repetitions of small knotwork or cablework tools."
. -- Needham.

. Penitential bindings

. CM: A number of later sixteenth-century Parisian 'penitential'
. bindings are tooled in silver on dark brown morocco to
. create a somber appearance." -- Needham

. Pictorial bindings

. Retrospective bindings

. SN: A conscious imitation of an earlier style.

. Scottish herringbone design bindings

. Somber bindings

. CM: 'Somber' bindings of silver-tooled black morocco were
. common in Restoration England." -- Needham.

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