Roxburgh binding

English

Alternative forms

• Roxburghe binding

Etymology

From the third duke of Roxburgh (in Scotland), a noted book collector who had his books bound this way.

Noun

Roxburgh binding (countable and uncountable, plural Roxburgh bindings)

1. A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, and the front and bottom left uncut.