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I am cataloging a volume of a 2 volume 1741 court report (and have zero information about its history - other than one of our other libraries gave it to us)</div>
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And it looks like none of the other extant eng records in OCLC mentioned binding.<br>
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I 'believe' this is calf, perhaps, Polished Calf.</div>
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Dust Jackets. Dust jackets or dust wrappers are the paper coverings wrapped around the boards of a book. Dust jackets began to be used regularly in the late 1800s where they were originally designed to be a disposable packaging to help protect the book until
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What is the best resource (or two) on determining calf leathers in binding?</div>
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