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单词 roxburghe
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Roxburghen.

Brit. /ˈrɒksb(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈrɑksbərə/
Forms: 1800s– Roxburgh, 1800s– Roxburghe. Also with lower-case initial.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Roxburghe.
Etymology: < the name of the Roxburghe Club, founded on 16th June 1812 to mark the auction of the library of book-collector John Ker, 3rd Duke of Roxburghe (1740–1804), which took place on the following day.
Bookbinding.
I. Compounds.
1. attributive. Designating a style of bookbinding designed for the Roxburghe Club and characterized by a plain flat back in leather with gilt lettering in a border near the head, cloth or paper sides, and the leaves gilt on the head edge with the other edges rough cut. Frequently in Roxburghe binding, Roxburghe style.
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > type of binding > [noun]
antiquing1728
royal binding1808
Russia binding1817
gothique1818
half-binding1821
Roxburghe1839
paper cover1843
trade binding1874
tree-calf1879
Grolier1880
yapp1883
cloth-work1885
publisher's binding1885
tree-marble1885
treed calf1892
presentation binding1893
quarter leather1894
quarter calf1896
three-quarter binding1897
library binding1903
circuit-binding1909
publisher's cloth1911
quarter binding1912
loose back1923
open back1923
spring-back1923
spiral binding1949
1839 Gentleman's Mag. 167 Catal. Bks. 8/2 Don Quixote, translated, 4 vols. 8vo,..new hf. morocco, Roxburghe style, £1. 15s. pub. at £6. 6s.
c1865 J. C. Hotten Hand-bk. Topogr. & Family Hist. Eng. & Wales (inside front cover) Roxburghe bindings—the cheapest and handsomest covering for books..—half morocco, top cut, front and bottom carefully trimmed, marbled or crimson paper sides.
1891 Proc. Amer. Libr. Assoc. Conf. Dec. 52/2 Exactly what a Roxburghe binding is, seems to be a matter of dispute and uncertainty among American librarians.
1947 Mod. Philol. 44 216/2 If the owner knew it to be a facsimile, he probably had it put into an inexpensive Roxburghe binding.
1982 M. T. Roberts & D. Etherington Bookbinding & Conservation Bks. 222/2 Roxburghe style..was originally designed for the publications of the Roxburghe Club, founded in England in 1812 by a group of wealthy bibliophiles.
2004 D. McKitterick Hist. Cambr. Univ. Press III. vii. 159 A choice of ‘Roxburghe style’,..three-quarter morocco or full morocco.
II. Simple uses.
2. A binding, or a book bound, in the Roxburghe style. Chiefly in half Roxburghe. Now rare.
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1875 Publishers' Weekly 30 Jan. 131 (advt.) Standard English Novelists. Printed in a convenient, portable size, strongly bound in cloth or half Roxburghe.
1891 Proc. Amer. Libr. Assoc. Conf. Dec. 52/2 Roxburghe is a leather-backed book with lettering in a panel, having no corners, no bands, and no ornamentation. Cloth sides are frequent but not essential.
1904 Nature 18 Aug. p. cxliv/2 (advt.) Cathedral Cities..Seventy-five copies, proofs, folio, half roxburghe,..£3 3s. net.
1937 Imago Mundi 2 113 Numerous facsimiles of Early Maps, half roxburghe, very scarce.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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