half-leather

British  

noun

1. a type of half-binding in which the backs and corners of a book are bound in leather

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half-leather

If bound substantially in good half-leather, with leather corners, the cost is reckoned at 1s. 4d. each, in London.

From A Book for All Readers An Aid to the Collection, Use, and Preservation of Books and the Formation of Public and Private Libraries by Spofford, Ainsworth Rand

There was an old harness upon him, half-leather, half-rope, with a few wisps of corn-husk, and without delay Jim laid his hand on the bit-ring and started away.

From Dorothy on a House Boat by Raymond, Evelyn

The sets are in thirteen handsome volumes—size 7½ x 5½ inches—containing 7,000 pages; attractively bound in cloth and half-leather; 400 illustrations—reproductions of quaint wood-cuts of Shakespeare's time, and beautiful color plates.

From The Mayflower, January, 1905 by Various

Illustrated by S. L. Fildes, R.A.—Also a Pocket Edition, set in New Type, in Elzevir style, fcap. 8vo, half-leather, 2s. 6d.

From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Besant, Walter, Sir

For extra half-leather work the backs are previously glued round on the book itself.

From Practical Bookbinding by Adam, Paul