[Book boards (loose), endpapers, and binding waste]
[Scotland? : s.n.,
175-?]
The loose boards are cloth bound with leather corner tips and hinges, and there are marbled endpapers. The binder's waste consists of loose strips of paper. One of the strips has two dates: 1731 and 1734, suggesting that the binding was early to mid-eighteenth century. The fragments appear to be made up of four, possibly even five, different hands. None of the strips appear to link to one another: possibly a pile of different manuscript leaves that were cut up in the bindery at one instance. From the very limited context of the strips and fragments there were frequent uses of legal terms and words.
Bookbinding