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Meaning of ROXBURGH

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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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