RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Binding Terms

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Scope Note

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.

Broader Term

Styles (Gathering term; do not assign)

 

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