Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components (hierarchy name)
4. components (objects parts)
5. [components by specific context]
6. information form components
7. gathered matter components
8. [bindings and binding components]
9. bindings (gathered matter components)
10. [bindings by style or decoration]

Anotations

Scope note:

Book bindings first made by Cedric Chivers, Bath, England, around 1903 featuring a layer of transparent vellum laid over a painted or decorated cover, sometimes having inlays of shell or other materials. The vellum was sometimes gold tooled.