[DCRM-L] Determining leather?

[Jesse Lambertson]

good morning

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)
And it looks like none of the other extant eng records in OCLC mentioned binding.

I 'believe' this is calf, perhaps, Polished Calf.
https://www.abebooks.com/books/rarebooks/collecting-guide/understanding-rare-books/understanding-bindings.shtml
[https://www.abebooks.com/images/RareBooks/RareBookSchool/Original-Cloth.jpg]<https://www.abebooks.com/books/rarebooks/collecting-guide/understanding-rare-books/understanding-bindings.shtml>
AbeBooks: Book Collecting Guide - Guide to Understanding Bindings<https://www.abebooks.com/books/rarebooks/collecting-guide/understanding-rare-books/understanding-bindings.shtml>
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 it reached its owner’s library.
www.abebooks.com


What is the best resource (or two) on determining calf leathers in binding?

thank you


Jesse A Lambertson
Metadata / Digital Resources Librarian
E-mail: lambertson at uchicago.edu
Ph: 773-702-9620
D'Angelo Law Library (University of Chicago)
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