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Perfect bound books usually consist of various sections with a cover made from heavier paper, glued together at the spine with a strong glue. The sections are milled in the back and notches are applied into the spine to allow hot glue to penetrate into the spine of the book.
This book is mentioned in the novel The Time Traveler's Wife, much of which is set in the Newberry. [25] The National Library of Australia holds a 19th-century poetry book with the inscription "Bound in human skin" on the first page. [26] The binding was performed 'before 1890' and identified as human skin by pathologists in 1992. [27]
The term quaternion (or sometimes quaternum) designates such a unit. A gathering made of a single folded sheet (i.e. two leaves, four sides) is a bifolium (plural bifolia ); a gathering of two sheets (i.e. four leaves, eight sides) is a binion ; and one of five sheets (10 leaves, 20 sides) is a quinion .
This glossary of biology terms is a list of definitions of fundamental terms and concepts used in biology, the study of life and of living organisms.It is intended as introductory material for novices; for more specific and technical definitions from sub-disciplines and related fields, see Glossary of cell biology, Glossary of genetics, Glossary of evolutionary biology, Glossary of ecology ...
A copy of De integritatis et corruptionis virginum notis kept in the Wellcome Library, believed to be bound in human skin Anthropodermic bibliopegy —the binding of books in human skin—peaked in the 19th century. The practice was most popular amongst doctors, who had access to cadavers in their profession. It was nonetheless a rare phenomenon even at the peak of its popularity, and ...
Buckram variety swatches that can be used to cover books. Library binding can be divided into the two major categories of "original" and "after market". The original category is as it says: the book was originally bound with the idea that it would be used in a library setting where the book would receive harder use than those usual trade editions sold to the public.
Because at first Pocket Books was the only publisher of paperbacks, the term "pocket book" became synonymous with paperback in English-speaking North America. (In France, the term livre de poche, which translates as "pocket book", was used and is still in use today.) De Graaf, like Lane, negotiated paperback rights from other publishers, and ...
Codex – a bound book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar materials; Coffee table book – an oversized, usually hard-covered book whose purpose is for display on a table; Coloring book – a book containing line art to which a reader may add color using crayons, colored pencils, marker pens, paint or other ...