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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Example Sentences

It was a ledger with a half-leather binding such as storekeepers use for accounts.

From The Garden of Eden by Brand, Max

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

Books bound in half-cloth or half-leather have the sides covered with paper; the latter often with cloth.

From Practical Bookbinding by Adam, Paul

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