[DCRM-L] Fake morocco binding?

[Ted P Gemberling]

Thanks, Mike. Interesting that there's a monograph on that subject of fake leather. 
Ted 

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Not faux-roco?

Sorry, folks -- it's Friday.

Although he doesn't address its use by nineteenth-century binders specifically, Robert Kanigel's _Faux Real: Genuine Leather and 200 Years of Inspired Fakes_ (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010) is likely to shed some light on this question.

Yours,
Mike G.
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Mike Garabedian
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Wardman Library, Whittier College
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Ted P Gemberling <tgemberl at uab.edu> wrote:
> Oksana,
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> 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?
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> Best,
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> Ted Gemberling
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> From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] 
> On Behalf Of Oksana Linda
> Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 9:10 AM
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> Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] Fake morocco binding?
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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:
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> http://cool.conservation-us.org/don/dt/dt1808.html
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> http://cool.conservation-us.org/don/dt/dt1806.html
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> Dr. Chase's recipes was a very popular book, re-issued many times.
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> Clements Library holds several editions of this work.
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> Oksana.
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> On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Ted P Gemberling <tgemberl at uab.edu> wrote:
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> 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."
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> 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.
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> The book is “Dr. Chase's recipes, or, Information for everybody,” published:
> Ann Arbor, Michigan : Published by the author.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Ted P. Gemberling
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