RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Binding Terms

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Types of binding structure (Gathering term; do not assign)

. Adhesive bindings

.. Caoutchouc bindings

. Backless bindings

. Boards

.. Edges of binding boards

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

... Bevelled edge boards

... Square edge boards

.. Hemp boards

.. Pasteboard

.. Wooden boards

... Mauchline ware bindings

...     CM:

...     HN: Submitted by: Jennie Clements, UNC Chapel Hill, 9/9/11;
... added 6/26/2012.

...     SN: Use for novelty bindings decorated using a technique that
... originated in the 1830s in the Scottish town of Mauchline,
... in which wooden boards are decorated with stenciling,
... transfer prints, photographs, etc., then heavily varnished.

... Scaleboard

. Case bindings

. Circuit edges

. Dos-à-dos bindings

. Flap bindings

.     SN: Use for bindings which include or employ flaps.

. Girdle books

. Guard books

. Limp bindings

.     SN: Use for any kind of limp binding.

. Mechanical bindings

.     HN: Approved 6/2008.

.     SN: Use for bindings in which a device of metal, plastic, etc.,
. holds single leaves together in a non-exchangeable manner.

.. Comb bindings

..     HN: Approved 6/2008

..     SN: Use for bindings in which the curved prongs of a strip of
.. metal, plastic, etc., pass through a series of holes in a
.. margin of the text block.

.. Spiral bindings

..     HN: Approved 6/2008.

..     SN: Use for bindings in which a coil of metal, plastic, etc.,
.. passes through a series of holes in a margin of the text
.. block.

. Non-adhesive bindings

. Tacketed bindings

.     HN: Approved 6/2005

.     SN: Use for bindings in which the case is attached to the text
. block by means tackets, such as strips of parchment or
. leather thongs.

. Tucks

. Wrappers

.     SN: A physically attached flexible cover for a book. Cf. Dust
. jacket.

.. Cloth wrappers

.. Printed wrappers

.. Vellum wrappers

. Yapp style bindings

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