RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Binding Terms

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

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

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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