Roxburgh

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Roxburgh \Rox"burgh\ (?; Scot. ?), n. [From the third duke of
     Roxburgh (Scotland), a noted book collector who had his books
     so bound.]
     A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather,
     the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front
     and bottom left uncut.


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