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 conditions of production]

Anotations

Scope note:

Simple bindings in sheep or calf, rarely lettered, commissioned in small quantities by booksellers from the 15th to the 18th century. Distinguished from uniform "edition bindings" produced wholesale, (often machine-made case bindings), applied in quantity to books expected to sell rapidly and in quantity, from the mid-18th century.