[DCRM-L] Fake morocco binding?

[Ted P Gemberling]

Oksana,
Thanks for those links. “Imitation leather” looks like a good heading, and I used it on that book. Do you have any idea when imitation leather started to be used?

Best,
Ted Gemberling

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Hi Ted,
I think the term is "imitation leather" or "imitation cloth". We use it as local term, it's not RBMS controlled vocabularies. From Roberts and Etherington's dictionary:
http://cool.conservation-us.org/don/dt/dt1808.html
http://cool.conservation-us.org/don/dt/dt1806.html

Dr. Chase's recipes was a very popular book, re-issued many times.
Clements Library holds several editions of this work.

Oksana.

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On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Ted P Gemberling <tgemberl at uab.edu<mailto:tgemberl at uab.edu>> wrote:
I notice that a book I’m cataloging has a price list on the title page: "In cloth, $1.25; paper covers, $1.00; morocco gilt, $2.00."

It’s a popular medical book from 1866. I’m almost sure my copy is not morocco leather, though it is covered in a kind of material that has a slightly rough texture and gilt stamps. It looks like some kind of paper.

The book is “Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody,” published: Ann Arbor, Michigan : Published by the author.

I didn’t notice any ACRL RBMS heading for fake bindings. Does anyone have a recommendation about this? I think it would be interesting to note that it appears to be fake.

Some coworkers just suggested that maybe the term “morocco gilt” doesn’t necessarily mean the book is leather. Maybe it’s just a style of ornamentation. If it were really morocco leather, you’d expect the price differential to be higher.

Ted P. Gemberling
Historical Collections Cataloger
UAB Lister Hill Library, rm. 234B
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Birmingham, Ala. 35294-0013
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