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Thank you everybody for the responses re: binding description. The information most of you have mentioned is the way we describe bindings at Eton too. However, I found that with the schoolbooks, which have quite simple and often very used bindings, there is not much to describe in terms of decoration, colour and the like. You can quite often see the structure though, e.g. material for sewing supports, the actual number of sewing supports as opposed to the number of raised bands, boards' material. I personally find these bindings more interesting than the gold tooled fancy ones, as they allow for a 'Pickwoadian' approach. As to the terms to describe bindings Ligatus 'Language of bindings' project http://www.ligatus.org.uk/lob/ has been going on for some time now, but as far as I can tell there are no usable results yet? Anna -----Original Message----- From: CIG E-Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Erika Delbecque Sent: 15 April 2015 14:29 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [CIG-E-FORUM] Routes into Rare Books Cataloguing I would like to add that the CILIP RBSCG have published helpful guidelines concerning cataloguing binding and provenance information: http://www.cilip.org.uk/sites/default/files/documents/Guidlines%20for%20the%20Cataloguing%20of%20Rare%20Books.pdf Erika On 15/04/2015 14:20, Matthew Baalham wrote: > I would like to just pick up on Anna Vlasova's question about binding description. Over the past four years I have been building on the work of a previous librarian in cataloguing Longleat's collections from scratch. In terms of binding description, I was heavily influenced therefore by the precedents already set in the existing catalogue. I therefore include the following information in what I regard as a fairly full description, where appropriate. > > Date > Material > Colour > Tooling (blind, gilt, stamps, rolls, fillets, etc.) Spine label with > text of any lettering transcribed Decoration of textblock (marbled, > sprinkled, etc.) Decoration of pastedowns Markers and fore-edge tabs. > 'Furniture' etc. > Notes on any obvious repairs (eg. rebacks) > > Think that's it. > > Matthew -- Erika Delbecque BA MA MCLIP Assistant Librarian St Hilda's College Library Cowley Place Oxford OX4 1DY (01865) 276 849 ---------------------------------------- If you are not the intended recipient of this email or his/ her representative please do not read, copy, distribute, use or retain this message or any part of it. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender immediately and delete it from your system. This email and any attachments may contain information that is confidential or protected by legal privilege. Statements and opinions in this email or any attachment are not necessarily agreed or authorised by Eton College or its subsidiary companies. Please note that Eton College may monitor and/or archive emails sent or received for operational, risk management and business reasons. We advise that you carry out your own virus checks before opening any attachment. Eton College is a registered charity with Charity Commission number 1139086. Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire SL4 6DW