| 单词 | roxburghe binding |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRoxburghe binding 1. attributive. Designating a style of bookbinding designed for the Roxburghe Club and characterized by a plain flat back in leather with gilt lettering in a border near the head, cloth or paper sides, and the leaves gilt on the head edge with the other edges rough cut. Frequently in Roxburghe binding, Roxburghe style. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > [noun] antiquing1728 royal binding1808 Russia binding1817 gothique1818 half-binding1821 Roxburghe1839 paper cover1843 trade binding1874 tree-calf1879 Grolier1880 yapp1883 cloth-work1885 publisher's binding1885 tree-marble1885 treed calf1892 presentation binding1893 quarter leather1894 quarter calf1896 three-quarter binding1897 library binding1903 circuit-binding1909 publisher's cloth1911 quarter binding1912 loose back1923 open back1923 spring-back1923 spiral binding1949 1839 Gentleman's Mag. 167 Catal. Bks. 8/2 Don Quixote, translated, 4 vols. 8vo,..new hf. morocco, Roxburghe style, £1. 15s. pub. at £6. 6s. c1865 J. C. Hotten Hand-bk. Topogr. & Family Hist. Eng. & Wales (inside front cover) Roxburghe bindings—the cheapest and handsomest covering for books..—half morocco, top cut, front and bottom carefully trimmed, marbled or crimson paper sides. 1891 Proc. Amer. Libr. Assoc. Conf. Dec. 52/2 Exactly what a Roxburghe binding is, seems to be a matter of dispute and uncertainty among American librarians. 1947 Mod. Philol. 44 216/2 If the owner knew it to be a facsimile, he probably had it put into an inexpensive Roxburghe binding. 1982 M. T. Roberts & D. Etherington Bookbinding & Conservation Bks. 222/2 Roxburghe style..was originally designed for the publications of the Roxburghe Club, founded in England in 1812 by a group of wealthy bibliophiles. 2004 D. McKitterick Hist. Cambr. Univ. Press III. vii. 159 A choice of ‘Roxburghe style’,..three-quarter morocco or full morocco. < as lemmas |
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