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Definition: Grolier binding
Grolier
\Gro"lier`\, n.
The name by which Jean Grolier de Servier (1479-1565), a
French bibliophile, is commonly known; -- used in naming a
certain style of binding, a design, etc.
Grolier binding, a book binding decorated with a pattern
imitated from those given covers of books bound for Jean
Grolier, and bearing his name and motto.
Grolier design or
Grolier school, the pattern of
interlacing bars, bands, or ribbons, with little scrolls
of slender gold lines, assumed to be an imitation of the
designs on Jean Grolier's book bindings.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]