yapp
(jæp)
[Name of a London bookseller to whose order this style of binding was first made, about 1860 (N. & Q. 9th Ser., 1890, IV. 256).]
Name for a style of bookbinding in limp leather with overlapping edges or flaps. Hence yapped (jæpt) a., made in this style.
| 1882 Publishers' Circular 15 Feb. 163 Bagster's Bibles. In Sheep Yapped, with Elastic Band. 1883 N. & Q. 6th Ser. VII. 313 Yapp, as applied to binding, is the name of the binder [sic] who originally employed the style now so known. 1889 Rep. Artisans Paris Univ. Exhib. 31 Bagster & Co. have a good variety of work in the Bible line, especially their india-rubber kid-lined Yapps. 1894 Guardian 31 Oct. 1712 An ingenious method of appending markers to Bibles with yapped or overlapping bindings. 1910 Athenæum 26 Feb. 239/1 In velvet persian, yapp edges, boxed. |