This may have been caused in part at least by their having been pasted down, and possibly scraped, by binders, for almost all of them have been found in bindings; but it counts for something.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
Magee proposed to cater to the higher class of purchasers only, and with this end in view he has selected a choice line of books; in splendid bindings and in illustrated books he has a particularly large stock.
"Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions"
Slason Thompson
The books, many of them in handsome bindings, he glanced at, in order that no one worthy of life should be destroyed.
"The Orchard of Tears"
Sax Rohmer