Simple bindings in sheep or calf, rarely lettered, commissioned in small quantities by booksellers from the 15th to the 18th century. Distinguished from uniform "edition bindings" produced wholesale, (often machine-made case bindings), applied in quantity to books expected to sell rapidly and in quantity, from the mid-18th century.
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