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Cambridge Bookbindings : A half-leather binding for the University Library, ca.1740-60

Diocese of Venice, Mocenegam, Joan.

Cambridge Bookbindings

<p style='text-align: justify;'><p>While the University Library had hundreds of books rebound in the eighteenth century using marbled paper on the boards of half-leather bindings (<a href='/view/PR-C-00004-00025'>C.4.25</a>), it also had many produced like this, using mottled yellow paper instead of the marbled variety. We do not know the name of the binder, but they would have been locally made.</p><p>Pasteboards, bound in half-leather style with thinly-pared calfskin on the spine, and small calfskin tips at the corners. The spine is undecorated save for the addition of a goatskin title label; red sprinkled leaf edges.</p><p>Dr David Pearson</p></p>

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