leather binding
Traditional tome wrapping
Leather binding is a method of bookbinding using leather to cover the boards and spine.
Books with leather binding—often calfskin, goatskin, or morocco—are associated with quality, durability, and traditional craftsmanship: a first edition in original leather binding, The library's leather bindings had dried and cracked with age.
The term also refers to the leather cover itself.
- endpapersSheets joining cover to pages
- bookbindingAssembling pages into volumes
- embossingRaising designs from surfaces
- spineColumn of vertebrae
- marbled paperDyed sheets with veined patterns
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- Quran manuscriptsbismillah, Arabic calligraphy, Arabic script, illuminated manuscripts, folio
- publishingpublishers, editors, editor, publishing house, books
- book partspage, pages, cover, index, chapter
- book aestheticsbook covers, dust jackets, bookbinding, typography, fonts
- bookbindingbookbinding, bookbinder, sewing, hand-bound, signatures
- classical authors manuscriptsilluminated texts, vellum, scriptorium, parchment, codex
leather bindingpaperback edition
Book with flexible covers
pocket edition · loose-leaf · spiral binding · galley proofs · chapbook
leather bindingloose-leaf
Pages designed for rearrangement
spiral binding · comb binding · ring binding · saddle stitch · unbound