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The library will gather and set aside their volumes which they want library bound, and then box and ship these books to a library binding company. The binding company handles each volume one at a time, and then places all the items from the shipment back into boxes and sends them back to the library.
A tipped-in page or, if it is an illustration, tipped-in plate, is a page that is printed separately from the main text of the book, but attached to the book. [1] A tipped-in page may be glued onto a regular page, or even bound along with the other pages.
Ex-lib: Ex-Library copy, a book once held in library. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Not to be confused with Ex Libris. Ex Libris: From the library of, referring to previous owner—often found on bookplates .
Beyond the familiar distinction between hardcovers and paperbacks, there are further alternatives and additions, such as dust jackets, ring-binding, and older forms such as the nineteenth-century "paper-boards" and the traditional types of hand-binding. The term bookcover is also commonly used for a book cover image in library management ...
Endpapers of the original run of books in the Everyman's Library, 1906, based on the art of William Morris's Kelmscott Press. The endpapers or end-papers of a book (also known as the endsheets ) are the pages that consist of a double-size sheet folded, with one half pasted against an inside cover (the pastedown), and the other serving as the ...
In publishing, a colophon (/ ˈ k ɒ l ə f ən,-f ɒ n /) [1] is a brief statement containing information about the publication of a book such as an "imprint" (the place of publication, the publisher, and the date of publication). [2] A colophon may include the device [2]: 69 of a printer or publisher.
Ex-library copies must always be designated as such no matter what the condition of the book. Book club copies must always be designated as such no matter what the condition of the book . Binding copy describes a book in which the pages or leaves are perfect, but the binding is very bad, loose, off, or non-existent.
This type of binding uses either a 3:1 pitch hole pattern with three holes per inch or a 2:1 pitch hole pattern with two holes per inch. The three to one hole pattern is used for smaller books that are up to 9/16" in diameter while the 2:1 pattern is normally used for thicker books as the holes are slightly bigger to accommodate slightly ...