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2. Sangorski & Sutcliffe - Wikipedia

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   Upper cover and spine of Pierre Sonnerat's ‘Voyage to the Spice Islands’, bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in 1913 Sangorski & Sutcliffe is a firm of bookbinders established in London in 1901. It is considered to be one of the most important bookbinding companies of the 20th century, famous for its luxurious jeweled bindings that used real ...

3. Bookbinding - Wikipedia

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   A variation of the hardcover which is more durable is the calf-binding, where the cover is either half or fully clad in leather, usually from a calf. This is also called full-bound or, simply, leather bound. Library binding refers to the hardcover binding of books intended for the rigors of library use and are largely serials and paperback ...

4. Book cover - Wikipedia

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   Front cover of the St Cuthbert Gospel, c. 700; the original tooled red goatskin binding is the earliest surviving Western binding.. A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book.

5. Treasure binding - Wikipedia

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   Gem-encrusted cover of the Codex Aureus of St. Emmeram, 870 Ivory plaque, probably from a book cover, Reims late 9th century, with two scenes from the life of Saint Remy and the Baptism of Clovis Typical Limoges enamel cover, c. 1200. A treasure binding or jewelled bookbinding is a luxurious book cover using metalwork in gold or silver, jewels ...

6. Library binding - Wikipedia

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   Sending books to the library binder is a mass production process. The library will gather and set aside their volumes which they want library bound, and then box and ship these books to a library binding company. The binding company handles each volume one at a time, and then places all the items from the shipment back into boxes and sends them ...

7. Harvard Library removes human skin from book binding - AOL

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   Harvard University removed human skin from the binding of "Des Destinées de L'âme" in Houghton Library on Wednesday after a review found ethical concerns with the book's origin and history.