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- noun Plural form of
bookbinding .
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Examples
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Princeton University Library's special collection of antique handcrafted bookbindings is utterly amazing.
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Despite all the testimony about human skin lampshades and bookbindings, no such object was introduced in evidence.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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Though the show includes the Morgan's entire collection of bookbindings, including nineteenth and twentieth century examples as well as an English Restoration-era Roger Bartlett mosaic binding, the real superstars are the medieval jeweled covers of the Lindau Gospels.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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Though the show includes the Morgan's entire collection of bookbindings, including nineteenth and twentieth century examples as well as an English Restoration-era Roger Bartlett mosaic binding, the real superstars are the medieval jeweled covers of the Lindau Gospels.
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John Fraser's new exhibit at Roy Boy Gallery continues his exploration of bookbindings as a quiet, yet charged, embodiment of nonspecific content.
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The billiard-table arrived and was put in place, the brilliant green cloth in contrast with the rich red wallpaper and the bookbindings and pictures making the room wonderfully handsome and inviting.
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In the air hung a redolence of leather bookbindings, waxed wood, old fabric, and also a faint mustiness of disuse.
Marune: Alastor 933 Vance, Jack 1975
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Indeed, morocco was so little used for bookbindings until within about thirty years that it affords a less ample field for investigation than any other of the leathers now in common use.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various
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In that drawer he rummaged among an accumulation of odd, incongruous objects: old medals and old nails, bookbindings and discolored engravings, a large leather box gnawed by insects, on the outside of which could be distinguished a partly effaced coat-of-arms.
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Just outside the radius of warmth the bookbindings shone gold in the dark.
The Seventh Noon Frederick Orin Bartlett
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