Why do some hardcover books have those paper dust jackets, and what was their original purpose when they were first invented?
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Why do some hardcover books have those paper dust jackets, and what was their original purpose when they were first invented?
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history of book dust jackets original purpose first invented paper wrappers Google ↗
- Book Collecting Basics - A Brief History of the Dust Jacket | International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) · ilab.org
- CABINET / Jacket Required · cabinetmagazine.org
- Earliest-known book jacket discovered in Bodleian Library | Libraries · theguardian.com
- Cabinet 2, Straight Jackets: the Art of the Book Jacket, University of Otago Library Online Exhibition · otago.ac.nz
- Book World: Try dusting off ‘Book-Jackets: Their History, Forms, and Use’ · washingtonpost.com
- How to Judge a Book by Its Cover: 19th- and 20th-Century Cloth Bookbindings · rarebookschool.org