Shagreen — a close-grained goatskin leather obtained by a particular treatment of the hide — became established in the nineteenth century as one of bookbinders' favoured materials, prized for its durability. Often dyed red, green, or deep black, it was used to bind both Romantic-era editions and large-paper copies alike, and its condition, suppleness, and the quality of its gilt tooling remain, for the connoisseur, the very criteria of judgment.
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