ppl. a. Said of a book. Also fig.
1649. G. Daniel, Trinarch., Hen. IV., st. 265. Whose Volumes Numberless Nature doth Summe In one Compendious Abstract; Well-bound Man!
1781. Cowper, Table-T., 745. To see the name of idol self, Stamp’d on the well-bound quarto, grace the shelf.
1845. Penny Cycl., Suppl. I. 220/2. Most well-bound books have a little appendage at the top of the back-edge, called the ‘head-band.’
1880. Daily News, 19 Oct., 4/7. The rubbishy but well-bound book keeps its place on the shelves.
