Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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landscape binding

A style of decoration featuring landscape scenes, executed either by freehand drawing with Chinese ink or acid, printing, or by some form of painting. The earliest recorded is 1777, while others are mentioned in the 1820s. (156 , 236 )




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