[DCRB-L] DCRM Area 7

[Hillyard, Brian]

I'm posting a few comments on behalf of David Pearson:

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7C10: "describe details of a publisher's binding .." - this is OK for 19th c
publishers' bindings in decorated cloth (which is what's envisaged), where a
substantial part of the edition was issued to the public in uniform
bindings, but is there a danger of confusion or misinterpretation in earlier
centuries?  What's a publisher's binding, in the 18th c, or to put it
another way when does this term begin to be meaningful?  Some 17th bindings
(e.g. the Dodona's Grove ones, or the ones with what look like booksellers'
emblems on the boards) are sometimes described as publishers' bindings, in
my view erroneously.  I can't help feeling some qualification is needed here
to make clear that we're only talking about cases where the binding is
genuinely edition-, or at least issue-specific.

In the binding notes examples in 7C18, I think the second (17th c) example,
"more detail", should refer to gilt page-edges (cf the first example), and
I'm puzzled by the reference to paper boards, as opposed to pasteboard,
pulpboard or (just possibly at that date) millboard; I don't know what paper
boards means.
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Brian
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Dr Brian Hillyard
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