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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 866703, member: 8267&quot;]2many&#039;s partner here, the bookseller. This kind of padded binding was very popular in gifty kinds of books in the late Victorian period. Looks like blindstamped pigskin, which is softer and has less grain than morocco, though it could be calf. It would be over thick felt, or maybe horsehair. The penciled numbers are the original seller&#039;s price code. It is the original publisher&#039;s binding - there would have been several varieties in differing degrees of &#039;luxury&#039;. Porter &amp; Coates was active under that name from 1867 to 1895, and published a lot of children&#039;s &amp; popular literature, often in these fancy bindings. The materials used were not always of high quality, so they often have not worn well. In my experience, collecting demand is low, but there are always people looking for pretty books by known authors.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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