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1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Treat. Orange Trees vii. 15 in Compl. Gard'ner Lift the Tree out of the Case..and so without demolishing any part of the Old Case, you may keep or make use of it again..to Re-Case the same Tree in.

1822 Times 28 Dec. 4/2 (table) Recasing the outer head.

1857 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 10 Oct. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) II. vii. 388 The body of the church has been almost entirely recased with stone.

1956 J. Lang Rebuilding St. Paul's p. x Showing the walls of Old St. Paul's as recased by Inigo Jones.

1998 Ceramic Rev. Mar.–Apr. 25/1 Our cases were made in the 19th Century. If you really want to make a difference to our activities, re-case the galleries.

1920 T. J. Wise Bibliogr. Writings J. Conrad i. 4 It is clear that ex-library copies of Almayer's Folly..have recently been made attractive and marketable by the apparently simple process of re-casing them in cloth.

1977 Shotton's (Durham) Catal. Oct. Recased into orig. cloth.

1996 Antioch Rev. 54 (Electronic text) What if all the books in a library had their bindings removed and were then recased at random?

1848 T. S. Muir Descriptive Notices Churches Scotl. 8 Entirely in common with the details of the entirely restored or recased exterior building, [the tracery] belongs to a style which seems to be..corrupt Third-Pointed.

1920 T. J. Wise Bibliogr. Writings J. Conrad i. 4 When the binding looks very green and new..the book is probably a re-cased one.

1963 J. Summerson Heavenly Mansions iii. 77 An appearance much more classical than that which Inigo Jones contrived for the old church recased.

2000 Times (Nexis) 7 Oct. Whereas collectors would once have had their new books sumptuously leather-bound, a recased Evelyn Waugh or James Kelman is now considered a faux pas.