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pocket-book bindings
Note (en)
Note
Small books bound so as to be conveniently carried in a person's pocket, usually by means of fore-edge flaps to protect the bookblock. They vary greatly in the extent to which they were decorated but some binders from the 18th century onwards specialised in this type of work, and described themselves as 'pocket book binders', or even 'fancy pocket book binders'.
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AAT
The Arts and Architecture Thesaurus Online, The Getty Research Institute.
Additional Reference
http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300312359 (modified)
source-reference-719
Source
Pickwoad, Bookbinding in the Eighteenth... (2009)
Nicholas Pickwoad (2009), “Bookbinding in the Eighteenth Century”, in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Vol V 1695-1830, edited by Michael Felix Suarez and Michael L Turner, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 268–290.
Additional Reference
p. 289
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