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The article presents information on the Italian fifteenth-century bookbindings. Italian fifteenth-century bindings with gilt decoration have received a great deal of attention since the daysof Prideaux, Horne, Brassington and Weale. Blind-stamped bindings were largely ignored. Students were deterred by the examples more common on manuscripts than on printed books, which are decorated with what look like short lengths of cord. The first person to appreciate that blind-tooled bindings of the incunabular period were worthy of study was Tammaro de Marinis. The study of bindings can help to elucidate the history of individual copiest and so throw light on the dissemination of editions. But a great deal more work has to be done on Italian bindings before a corpus of relIable information is available.