# Roxburgh binding

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, and the front and bottom left uncut.

## Etymology
From the third duke of Roxburgh (in Scotland), a noted book collector who had his books bound this way.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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