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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.
Library binding refers to the hardcover binding of books intended for the rigors of library use and are largely serials and paperback publications. Though many publishers have started to provide "library binding" editions, many libraries elect to purchase paperbacks and have them rebound in hard covers for longer life.
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 .
Publishers sometimes denominate a new iteration of a work a "revised edition" or the "(N)th edition, revised" when the previous iteration has been editorially revised or updated yet the author or publisher does not want to denominate it the "(N+1)th edition" ("N" being the number of the previous edition) for some subjective reason.
For instance, a library that subscribes to a periodical and wishes to preserve it typically takes a set of the issues and has them bound into a volume. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A publisher may also separately publish a volume out of previously published issues; this is common with graphic novels .
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 ...
Publisher code Publisher Additional imprints Notes 00: see #3-digit publisher codes: 01 Pyramid Books: e.g. ISBN 1-01-502772-5 02 Berkley Publishing: e.g. ISBN 1-02-541870-0 03 ...
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.