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Webster 1913 Edition


Roxburgh

Rox′burgh

(?; Scot. [GREEK])
,
Noun.
[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.