Concept cluster: Graphics and sound > Bookbinding styles
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(publishing, broadcasting) Less important or less hard-hitting material relegated to the later pages of a print publication or the later stages of a television broadcast.
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The final page of a publication, especially a book or magazine.
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Alternative form of back page [The final page of a publication, especially a book or magazine.]
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Something characteristic; a mark; a token.
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A dossier.
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A workshop or factory where books are bound.
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The spine of a book where the pages are held together.
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(printing) A blank on the edge or corner of a page, owing to a portion of the frisket, or something else, intervening between the type and paper.
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A durable book for young children, printed on thick paperboard.
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A collection of sheets of paper bound together to hinge at one edge, containing printed or written material, pictures, etc.
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Alternative form of bookbinder [A person whose profession is binding pages together to form books.]
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The art, craft or process of binding books
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A skin prepared for writing upon; a sheet of vellum or parchment; paper.
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The inner part of a book jacket wrapping around a book cover.
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A support for a book, holding it open for reading or copying.
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(printing, publishing) The jacket of a book.
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A small or thin book.
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A strip of material used to mark a place in a book.
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A slip of paper, card, etc. used to mark one's place in reading a book; a bookmark.
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A printed piece of paper pasted on one of the pages of a book, most often on the inside front cover, showing ownership and thus deterring theft.
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One of a set of bookshelves in a library.
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(printing, intransitive) Of pages printed several on a sheet: to rotate slightly when the sheet is folded two or more times.
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A number of sheets of paper put loosely together; especially one of the successive portions of a work printed in numbers.
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(of a book) hardcover (attributive)
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The single sheet of paper that forms the middle two pages of a magazine or other publication.
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centerfold; a central part of a magazine that folds out
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(printing, obsolete) One who has charge of the work of a companionship.
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A book bound in cloth.
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(publishing) Bound with cloth, as opposed to other bindings such as paper or leather.
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A book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scroll.
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A type of booklet label, consisting of up to 32 pages of booklet as an insert.
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Of or pertaining to the front cover of a book or magazine.
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An extra sheet attached to the front of a document.
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corporate records binder
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(publishing) In sewn books, the tendency of pages on the inside of a quire to stand out farther than those on the outside of it.
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A surrealist method in which one removes the staples from a staple-bound magazine, making into one "page" what had previously been more or less widely-separated pages; the resulting "page" can either be kept as is or used as the basis for a collage.
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A physical book containing a sleeve for an accompanying optical disc.
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A piece of card placed in a ring binder to separate groups of documents.
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An elaborately decorated leather flyleaf in a book.
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(figuratively) The planning stage of a project.
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(printing, publishing) The detachable paper cover of a book; used to protect the binding, and to provide blurb.
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A blank sheet at the beginning or end of a book.
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Either of two folded sheets of paper used to connect the front and back covers of a book to the first and last pages.
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To distinguish by a mark or ornament.
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(library science) Published single-sheet or single page documents which are meant to be thrown away after one use.
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In the American Library Association, a folio-sized book, over 30 cm in height.
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(publishing) A discrete section of a book issued or published separately.
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An installment of a printed work, a fascicle.
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One of the divisions of a book published in separate parts; a fascicle.
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The brief summary that often appears on the inside of a hardcover book's dust jacket.
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(publishing) A flat, glossy children's book with few pages.
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Having a flexible binding, as opposed to hardcover.
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Thin typing paper used to make multiple copies.
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A blank page at the front or back of a book.
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A printed leaflet or pamphlet.
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(paper, printing) Abbreviation of folio., page and book size (10"-12.5" x 15"-20"). [a leaf of a book or manuscript]
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Abbreviation of folio. [a leaf of a book or manuscript]
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(law) Abbreviation of folio. [a leaf of a book or manuscript]
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An organizer that papers are kept in, usually with an index tab, to be stored as a single unit in a filing cabinet.
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An overlarge page that is folded into a book or magazine.
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(publishing) The process of forming into pages; pagination.
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a leaf of a book or manuscript
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(paper) A flat sheet of writing paper, usually 17 by 24 inches.
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A kind of parchment for book covers; a forrill.
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(advertising) The back cover of a publication.
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(chiefly in plural) A publishing format of a paperback book with folded flyleaves, or either of the two flyleaves so folded.
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A decorative stapled booklet or similar, made by an individual who writes their name, address, interests etc. inside and gives it to a friend or pen pal. The book is passed on from one person to another, each adding their own details, and eventually returned to the originator.
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(publishing) An illustration that is on the page before the title page of a book, a section of one, or a magazine.
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(bookbinding) Bound entirely in leather.
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(bookbinding) A section, a group of bifolios, or sheets of paper, stacked together and folded in half.
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A style of book binding in which only the back and corners are in leather.
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(of a book) Having only the back and corners bound in leather
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Alternative form of hallmark [A distinguishing characteristic.]
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A loose printed sheet, to be distributed by hand.
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(of a book) bound by hand
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(of a book) Having a solid binding.
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A publisher of hardback books.
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(of a book) Having a hardcover; hardback
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A book with a rigid binding, often of cardboard or leather.
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Alternative form of hash mark [The hash or pound sign (#).]
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A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook.
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(figuratively) A book or similar printed work containing a wide variety of information.
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The piece of paper or the booklet inside the case of a compact disc, DVD, or cassette.
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(dated) An insignia.
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A leaf, often of tissue paper or other thin paper, inserted between the pages of a book to protect illustrations.
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A plain style of binding in smooth pale-brown calf leather, used for law books.
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(advertising, dated) Two pages.
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Bound in leather.
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A kind of folio writing paper, made for the use of lawyers, in long narrow sheets which have the fold at the top or "narrow edge".
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A large writing pad, made using yellow paper, especially one measuring 8½ by 14 inches and with a margin down the side of each page.
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(countable, printing) Any printed material (book, leaflet etc.) having such folds; a concertina.
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(Canada, uncountable) A size of paper, 215 mm × 280 mm.
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(New Zealand) perforated paper supplied in continuous connected sheets, designed for use with line printers
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Consisting of loose leaves (pages), often collected in a binder, rather than being bound like a book or stapled.
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paper with blank printed staves for writing music
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The midpoint of a book.
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The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
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Paper ruled with staves for writing sheet music.
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Tagged with a nametag.
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An early form of newspaper published in a folio format.
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Relatively small writing paper used for writing notes or letters; often provided with matching envelopes.
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A strip of paper looped around a book or other product.
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A book in the form of a long strip of paper with writing on one side, folded in zigzag fashion, historically associated with Japan and China.
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Abbreviation of page. [One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.]
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A portable case that opens in the manner of a book to reveal a notepad.
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One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.
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(in combination) Something (a document, book etc.) that has a specified number of pages.
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A manuscript or document that has been erased or scraped clean, for reuse of the paper, parchment, vellum, or other medium on which it was written.
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Pamphlets generally.
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A scholastic essay.
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Alternative spelling of paperbound [(not comparable, of a book) Having flexible covers; paperback; softcovered.]
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(of a book) Having flexible binding.
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A publisher of paperback books.
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(not comparable, of a book) Having flexible covers; paperback; softcovered.
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A diploma (traditionally written on parchment).
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The part of an endpaper that is pasted to a book's cover
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Abbreviation of paperback. [(of a book) Having flexible binding.]
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(historical) A manuscript, folded into four, assigned to be copied by a scribe
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A form of thermally activated book binding with a flat glued spine, resembling a paperback.
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Bound with a perfect binding.
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Abbreviation of page. [One of the many pieces of paper bound together within a book or similar document.]
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a book whose sturdy construction allows paper and artwork to rise up from each page when exposed to the air
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A post-it note.
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Of a book: rebound with a library quality hardcover binding. In almost all commercial cases, the book in question began as a paperback.
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(obsolete) A proof sheet (page of proofed text)
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The first leaf of a roll of papyrus, or the official mark typically found on such a page.
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(bookbinding) Five gathered sheets of paper folded in two for binding together.
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(bookbinding) A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures.
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As a quire of sheets of paper.
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(printing) Any of the left-hand pages of a book.
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In bookbinding, the shaping of the folded and sewed sheets into a convex form at the back.
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A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, and the front and bottom left uncut.
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Initialism of softcover. [(publishing) A book having such covers.]
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Used paper, to be reused for jotting notes etc.
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To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron.
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A scrap of paper.
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Synonym of put pen to paper
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A single piece of loose paper, which, when bound in a book or booklet, consists of two pages (one on the front and one on the back).
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A usually alphanumeric code indicating the physical location of a book or manuscript within a library.
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Items such as brochures that are displayed on and used from a shelf.
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To mark with a bracketed sic.
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liner notes
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(of a book) Furnished with or in a slipcase
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A method of hardcover bookbinding in which the signatures of the book are folded and stitched through the fold before being sewn and glued together at the spine to form a text block.
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A softcover or paperback book.
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(of a book) With a cover of flexible paper rather than a rigid cardboard cover.
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Having the sort of binding characteristic of a softcover book.
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(of a book) Bound with coil binding.
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Two facing pages in a book, newspaper etc.
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An inner false joint on a bound book, springing upward from the true or outer back when the book is opened flat.
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A person or business that sells stationery.
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Writing materials, envelopes, office materials.
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A block of several sheets of blank paper that are bound together at the top; pad of paper.
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A page torn from a periodical.
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A section of paper for a book containing three double leaves or twelve pages.
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(advertising) The inside back cover of a publication.
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(bookbinding) The panel for the name, between the bands of the back of a book.
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(printing) Ten and a half quires, or, commonly, 250 sheets, of paper printed on both sides; also, in some cases, the same number of sheets printed on one side, or half the number printed on both sides.
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A small tome, or volume.
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A bright brown polished calfskin binding for books, stained with a conventional tree-like design.
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A library binding of a mass market paperback with a generic hardcover.
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(publishing) A book where two texts are bound together, with one text rotated 180° relative to the other, such that when one text runs head-to-tail, the other runs tail-to-head.
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(obsolete) A roll or scroll, which was the form of ancient books.
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A collection of blank pages of writing paper, bound together, often with a cardboard cover
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In bookbinding, the edge of the binding that extends beyond the edges of the pages, and may protect the gilding.

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