• (n.) A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/roxburgh/
Rox'burgh noun [ From the third duke of Roxburgh (Scotland), a noted book collector who had his books so bound.] A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut. Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/R/99