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Trade bindings

Scope note

Simple bindings in sheep or calf, rarely lettered, commissioned in small quantities by booksellers from the 15th to the 18th century. Distinguished from uniform "edition bindings" produced wholesale, (often machine-made case bindings), applied in quantity to books expected to sell rapidly and in quantity, from the mid-18th century.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

3000257608

Term used for

bindings, trade

Equivalent Terms used

trade binding

Created

13yrs ago

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