Thesaurus       Binding Terms

            Term               Paper onlays

            Hierarchy        [Materials and treatments]

SN                   Use for decorative pieces of paper adhered to the cover material of a binding, frequently color-printed and employed in the decoration of publishers’ cloth bindings.

            BT                    Onlays

 

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Proposed Term     Paper onlays

 

Thesaurus             Binding

 

 

Submitted by       Sandra F. Carpenter                             

 

Term record as found in AAT (mandatory)          x

Term record as found in LCSH (mandatory)         x

Term record as found in GMGPC (mandatory)      x                 

Term record as found in GSAFD (mandatory)      x             

Term record as found in MeSH (mandatory)      x                  

Term record as found in MIM (mandatory)      x           

Term record as found in the Oxford English Dictionary, 2^nd edition (mandatory)      x

Term record as found in Webster’s 3rd New International Dictionary of the English Language (mandatory):     x

Term as found in Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2^nd edition (optional) x            

Term as found in source/hierarchical displays/definitions, other sources, &c. See warrant.

 

Hierarchy: Materials and treatment

 

Proposed SN:

Use for decorative pieces of paper, often color printed, adhered to the cover material of a binding; frequently employed in the decoration of publishers' cloth bindings.

 

Warrant:

McLean, Ruari. Victorian publisher's bookbindings in cloth and leather. Berkeley : Univ. of California Press, 1973. (p.53, 54, etc.) McLean describes the use of decorative paper onlays on p. 10: "When it was desired to add colour to a cloth binding, this was usually done, during the late 1850s, 1860s and even 1870s, by cut-out paper (or cloth, or even leather) onlays. McLean routinely uses the term "paper onlays" in his binding descriptions. Example: "Brown leather-grained cloth blocked in gold with four cut-out paper onlays" p. 53.

 

Greenfield, Jane. ABC of bookbinding. New Castle, DE : Oak Knoll Press, 1998: 47, under: Onlay: "A very thin leather or paper of a contrasting color pasted on a cover, often with edges of the onlay blind or gold tooled. Leather onlays were used as early as the 16th century. Paper onlays were used in the 18th and 19th centuries."

 

King, Edmund M. B. Victorian decorated trade bindings. London; New Castle, DE : The British Library; Oak Knoll Press, 2003. King employs the term in his bindings descriptions. Example: "The central oval has a white paper onlay. Within it, a vignette is blocked" entry 32.

 

 

UF x

Warrant (if necessary)       

 

BT Onlays            

Warrant (if necessary)

 

NT x

Warrant (if necessary)

 

RT x

Warrant (if necessary)

 

HN                         

 

Editorial team member & date:      Ryan Hildebrand, 4/14/08

 

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