Papier-mâché binding
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![Yellow cover of a book with floral decorations in gold.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9a/Flowers_from_Stratford_on_Avon_-_Upper_cover_%28c27m10%29.jpg/300px-Flowers_from_Stratford_on_Avon_-_Upper_cover_%28c27m10%29.jpg)
Flowers from Stratford on Avon. Paper (dyed yellow) has been drawn over the boards. The cover material is papier-mâché. The boards resemble wood, and are smooth bevelled. Yellow endleaves and pastedowns printed in gold. A gift book produced by Paul Jerrard.
Papier-mâché binding is an approach to bookbinding in which the boards of the book are decoratively-sculpted papier-mâché covered in plaster, pressed in a mold.[1] Papier-mâché binding was used in England during the mid-nineteenth century.
See also
References
- ^ Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Paper. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1983. p. 8. ISBN 9780520051027. OCLC 10769223.
Further reading
- Bookbinding in the British Isles: Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, Part I. London: Maggs Bros Ltd. 1996. ISBN 0901953083. OCLC 16318976.