[Name of a London bookseller to whose order this style of binding was first made, about 1860 (N. & Q., 9th Ser., 1890, IV. 250).] Name for a style of bookbinding in limp leather with overlapping edges or flaps. Hence Yapped 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., 1712/2. 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.
