Bubble Grain

Bubble grain is similar to pebble-grain book-cloth. Some bibliographers consider both bubble and pebble to be types of sand-textured grains, along with patterned sand.

The PBO database includes books bound in bubble-grain book-cloth dating back to 1870.

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pba00413 (detail) The lost daughter (1870)		pbw00043 (detail) The Norway music album (1881)

pba00175 (detail) Christian hymnal: A choice collection of hymns and tunes for congregational and social worship (1871)		pba01208 (detail) Mansions of the skies: An acrostic poem on the Lord's prayer (1875)		pba01257 (detail) Simon Suggs' adventures: Late of the Tallapoosa volunteers, together with Taking the census, and other Alabama sketches (1881)

Sources:
Gaskell, Philip. A New introduction to Bibliography. Oak Knoll Press, 2000.

Tomlinson, William and Richard Masters. Bookcloth, 1823–1980. Mellor, U.K.: Tomlinson, 1996.

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