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]

Narrower term/s

• publishers' cloth bindings [NP]

Anotations

Scope note:

Uniform bindings produced wholesale and in quantity (often machine-made case bindings), applied to books expected to sell rapidly and in quantity; used from the mid-18th century onwards; distinguished from small quantity "trade bindings," which are simple bindings of sheep or calf commissioned by booksellers from the 15th to the 18th century.