Papier-mâché binding

Flowers from Stratford on Avon. Paper (dyed yellow) has been drawn over the boards. The cover material is papier-mâché. The boards resemble wood, and are smooth bevelled. Yellow endleaves and pastedowns printed in gold. A gift book produced by Paul Jerrard.

Papier-mâché binding is an approach to bookbinding in which the boards of the book are decoratively-sculpted papier-mâché covered in plaster, pressed in a mold. Papier-mâché binding was used in England during the mid-nineteenth century.

See also

• Victorian era

Further reading

• Bookbinding in the British Isles: Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century, Part I. London: Maggs Bros Ltd. 1996. ISBN 0901953083. OCLC 16318976.