Papier-mâché binding
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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
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Paper. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1983. p. 8. ISBN 9780520051027. OCLC 10769223.
Further reading
[edit]- Bookbinding in the British Isles: Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, Part I. London: Maggs Bros Ltd. 1996. ISBN 0901953083. OCLC 16318976.