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Front cover of the St Cuthbert Gospel, c. 700; the original tooled red goatskin binding is the earliest surviving Western binding.. A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book.
The spine of the book is an important aspect in book design, especially in the cover design. When the books are stacked up or stored in a shelf, the details on the spine is the only visible surface that contains the information about the book. In a book store, it is often the details on the spine that attract the attention first.
Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws (born 27 January 1968), better known by his stage name Tricky, is a British music artist, record producer, [5] vocalist and rapper. [6] Born and raised in Bristol, in southwest England, he began his career as an early member of the band Massive Attack, alongside Robert Del Naja, Grant Marshall and Andrew Vowles.
A text block is a collection of sections or leaves bound together, which can be attached to a case (book cover) to form a book. [42] A codex is a series of quires sewn and bound through the folds. [citation needed] Folio and quarto refer to the size of the finished book, based on the sheet size that a paper maker could produce with a manual ...
The dust jacket (sometimes book jacket, dust wrapper or dust cover) of a book is the detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text and illustrations. This outer cover has folded flaps that hold it to the front and back book covers ; these flaps may also double as bookmarks .
Leather inlays, which are similar in form to inlays in woodworking, are shaped pieces of leather the same thickness as the covering leather on a book.A piece of leather the same shape, size, and thickness as the inlay is removed from the covering leather, and the inlay is placed into the resulting space.
A Little Golden Book’s interpretation based on the cover alone is spot-on with our memories of Grams and Gramps — candy and smiles galore. You can’t put a price tag on the facet of nostalgia ...
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