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<font size=3>"Dated bindings" would be a very useful term--I
even have a note on the inside front cover (oops--cover p. [2]) of my
copy of rbbin to that effect, with a local candidate to receive the term.
Shall I propose? Or would Lenore like to do it?<br><br>
The binding in question is classic 1588 German: pigskin, panel-stamped,
dated, and initialed. We're good on the former now, but might there
be some call for the latter term, "Initialed bindings"? A
little hard to scope, perhaps, since (as with panel-stamped and blocked
bindings) I have a feeling that 16th-c. examples aren't the same,
somehow, as 18th- or 19th-c. ones. Perhaps that doesn't matter.<br><br>
Richard<br><br>
At 4/29/2008 02:40 PM, Lenore Rouse wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Deborah et al.<br><br>
Maybe for this instance Recipes (Cookery) or some similar
subterfuge?<br><br>
In turn may I pose a question re. rbbin? I was looking for a heading to
apply to dated leather bindings (i.e. where the binder has tooled the
date on (usually) the cover) - I can't find any such term in rbbin and
wonder if there would be enough interest in trying to generate such a
term?<br><br>
best regards<br>
Lenore Rouse</font></blockquote></body>
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