The first is
early binding, which is when the object is declared to be a particular type of object.
Only two copies have such complete text and with such an
early binding, according to the auction house.
Second, I should have taken my skis back to the rental shop after the first
early binding release and had them readjusted.
She advises her readers that
early binding manuals need to be used with caution, however, because some of the described practices may have been purely local or were otherwise written by amateurs.
Books should be opened carefully to avoid acute opening, which can cause severe damage to
early binding structures, and the page opening should be held down with a strip of polyethylene tape if this does not affect the scanning.
Options for securing some form of
early binding agreement, which include conditional contracts, lock-out agreements, options to purchase and cost guarantees, have also been suggested.
early binding," consecutive foliation of texts in an early hand, or "provenance and marginal notes [or other] paratextual marks in an early hand ...
By analysing surviving sales records and prices, different kinds of
early bindings (and what they imply about the status and use of its contents for that particular owner), this part of the book provides an overview of what is nonetheless knowable.
The text of Thomson's catalogue ends with an appendix of "Manuscript Fragments in Peterhouse Printed Books," of particular interest to readers of this journal, and a second appendix of "Medieval Peterhouse Manuscripts No Longer in the Main Collection." The plates are excellent and provide valuable evidence of
early bindings and of pastedowns and inscriptions, as well as decoration; included are some photographs that show surviving features of the fifteenth-century library, such as the outline of the desk lectern and bench on the wall of the Perne Library.
(3) Alexandra Barratt and Alexandra Gillespie, '
Early Bindings on Medieval Manuscripts in New Zealand Libraries', Script & Print: Bulletin of the Bibliographical Society of Australia & New Zealand, 37 (2013), 195-219.