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Charles M. Adams American Trade Binding Collection - Development of Publishers' Bindings

Development of Publishers' Bindings - Part Two

The story of American publishers' bindings, or trade bindings, actually began in England about 1820. Archibald Leighton, an English bookbinder, is credited with the invention of book cloth around that date. William Pickering, the eminent English publisher, was the first to issue books bound in cloth. An example of one of his early [1825] cloth binding can be seen in the Special Collections & Rare Books Division of Jackson Library.

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Requests for information about the collections should be directed to:

Dr. William K. Finley, Special Collections & Rare Books Division Head (336) 334-5246. Email: wkfinley@uncg.edu

Text for this article is from the 1987-1988 Report of the Secretary for the Friends of the Library Report published by Walter Clinton Jackson Library, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

This material may not be reproduced/republished in any format without the expressed permission of Walter Clinton Jackson Library of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

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Updated October 4, 2002.