band covers

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band covers
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Pieces of covering material, most often alum-tawed skin but sometimes tanned skin, used to cover individual raised bands on the spine of a book. They are always used in conjunction with slotted spines. They were an entirely Italian phenomenon, probably northern Italian, and were in use throughout the sixteenth century and up to at least the 1670s.
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