"Leatherette" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... well-known religious authors' works, beautifully printed and daintily bound in leatherette with original ...
— Twelve Causes of Dishonesty • Henry Ward Beecher
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... of dressing books may all be summed up in the following materials: Boards, cloth, vellum, sheep, bock, pig-skin, calf, Russia, and morocco—to which may be added of recent years, buckram, duck, linoleum, and the imitations of leather, such as leatherette and morocco paper, and of parchment. I take no account here of obsolete styles—as ivory, wood, brass, silver and other metals, nor of velvet, satin, and other occasional luxuries of the binder's art. These belong to the domain of the amateur, the antiquary, or the book-fancier—not to that of the ...
— A Book for All Readers • Ainsworth Rand Spofford
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