page_title: Bookbindings in the British Library
hierarchical_section_title: Bookbindings in the British Library
caption_attribution_description: Style: Abstract|Circle|Leaf; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Brown|Red; Edge: Plain
context_page_description: The British Library contains a wide range of fine and historic bookbindings; however, books in the Library are organised primarily by subject rather than by binding so the Library has produced a guide to enable researchers to identity bindings of interest. The collection includes the oldest intact Western bookbinding, the leather binding of the 7th century St Cuthbert Gospel.
  Some gifts by, or purchases from, collectors of bindings are registered and kept together. A small number of bindings are always displayed in the Ritblat Gallery at the St Pancras site in London, and others can be examined in the reading rooms. There is also a display of the stamps and tools used for the books of George III near the entrance to the Conservation Centre.
context_section_description: The British Library contains a wide range of fine and historic bookbindings; however, books in the Library are organised primarily by subject rather than by binding so the Library has produced a guide to enable researchers to identity bindings of interest.  The collection includes the oldest intact Western bookbinding, the leather binding of the 7th century St Cuthbert Gospel.   
  Some gifts by, or purchases from, collectors of bindings are registered and kept together.  A small number of bindings are always displayed in the Ritblat Gallery at the St Pancras site in London, and others can be examined in the reading rooms.  There is also a display of the stamps and tools used for the books of George III near the entrance to the Conservation Centre.
caption: The original tooled red goatskin binding of the 7th century St Cuthbert Gospel is the earliest surviving Western binding
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