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Foxing is an age-related process of deterioration that causes spots and browning on old paper documents such as books, postage stamps, old paper money and certificates. The name may be a variant form of the English West country dialect term foust and Scots foze , to become moldy. [ 1 ]
It usually appears in modern books on the verso of the title page, but in some books is placed at the end (see Back matter). Dedication: Author: A dedication page is a page in a book that precedes the text, in which the author names the person or people for whom he/she has written the book. Epigraph: Author: A phrase, quotation, or poem.
The normal position for a colophon was after the explicit (the end of the text, often after any index or register). Colophons sometimes contained book curses, as this was the one place in a medieval manuscript where a scribe was free to write what he wished. Such curses tend to be unique to each book. [14]
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The word "page" comes from the Latin term pagina, which means, "a written page, leaf, sheet", [2] which in turn comes from an earlier meaning "to create a row of vines that form a rectangle". [3] The Latin word pagina derives from the verb pangere , which means to stake out boundaries when planting vineyards.
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A fore-edge painting is a scene painted on the edges of book pages. There are two basic forms, including paintings on fanned edges and closed edges. [1] For the first type, the book's leaves must be fanned, exposing the pages' edges for the picture to become visible. For the second, closed type, the image is visible only while the book is closed.
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