[ModLib] Binding 6 date ranges.

[Scot Kamins]

On Oct 14, 2007, at 12:34 PM, Darrell Johnson wrote:

> One other question: I had several 5 bindings with nice gilt on the  
> spine, barely worn covers but no hint that there ever was any gilt  
> on the cover.  Were some books produced with merely a blind stamped  
> covers and no gilt?  Or do some books simply shed their gilt quite  
> easily and very thouroughly?
>
>
Forgot to mention this in my last post. Once again, the ModernLib  
Quick Guide to Regular Binding Styles has this note on Style 5:

"Barry Neavill notes that this design required a large amount of gold  
leaf and added half a cent per volume to the binding cost. That extra  
half-cent doomed it to a short life. The seven titles published  
during summer and early fall of 1930 retained the grape vine on the  
spine but blind-stamped the torchbearer on the front cover."


Scot Kamins
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