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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 10363982, member: 8267&quot;]The only thing I would add is a correction to Ex Libris&#039;s use of the term &quot;publishers&#039; binding&quot;. </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Broadly defined, publishers’ bindings (also known as edition bindings) are bound books issued in quantity, identical in appearance, and brought to market at the expense of a publisher or distributor. The appearance of the publishers’ binding in the 1820s in Great Britain, and subsequently elsewhere, signaled a significant and enduring change in the way books were produced and sold.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/digital/collection/p16057coll49" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/digital/collection/p16057coll49" rel="nofollow">https://cdm.bostonathenaeum.org/digital/collection/p16057coll49</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Such publishers&#039; binding are typically what we would call hardcovers.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Boston Athenaeum article continues -</p><p>&quot;Before the introduction of publishers’ bindings, during the period known as the hand-press era (circa 1500-1800), methods of book construction and purchase remained largely unchanged. Booksellers and printers generally sold the textual contents of books unbound, in folded sheets, in intentionally temporary packaging such as paper <i><b>wrappers</b></i>. Alternatively, a simple binding of vellum, parchment, or sheepskin might be had for a higher price. The cost of fine bindings during this period would customarily be borne by purchasers, who would contract separately with a bookbinder for a distinctive binding reflective of their taste and wherewithal.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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