law-sheep

His office had not the usual dusty, business-like aspect of such places, but presented more the appearance of a gentleman's drawing-room; and, but for the ponderous cases of books bound in law-sheep, and a table covered with tin boxes and bundles of papers secured with red tape, the visitor would easily have mistaken it for such.

Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton

The products of gas combustion act on the bindings until firm calf drops in pieces, and even law-sheep loses its coherency, as the argument of the opposing counsel does when your own lawyer begins to talk. "

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various