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A book of the Bibliothèque de la Pléiade. The thinness of Bible paper allows books with very many pages to remain fairly compact. Bible paper, also known as scritta paper, is a thin grade of paper used for printing books which have many pages, such as a dictionary. Technically, Bible paper is a type of woodfree uncoated paper.
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This is the opening of Psalm 110, one of those translated by John Craig (abbreviated "I.C." in Latin) ca. AD 1564, appearing in this 1575 printing of the Scottish Psalter. Licensing [ edit ]
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Héliodore Pisan after Gustave Doré, "The Crucifixion", wood-engraving from La Grande Bible de Tours (1866). It depicts the situation described in Luke 23.. The illustrations for La Grande Bible de Tours are a series of 241 wood-engravings, designed by the French artist, printmaker, and illustrator Gustave Doré (1832–1883) for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the ...
Pages from 36-line Bible at the Bavarian State Library. The 36-line Bible, also known as the "Bamberg Bible", [1] was the second moveable-type-printed edition of the Bible. It is believed to have been printed in Bamberg, Germany, circa 1458–1460. No printer's name appears in the book, but it is possible that Johannes Gutenberg was the printer ...
When the leaves were not trimmed, the reader would have to cut open the leaf edges using a knife. Traditional book sizes/formats used in English-speaking countries. Based on the 19-by-24-inch or 482.5-by-609.5-millimetre printing paper size, which equals two folio leaves, four quarto leaves, eight octavo leaves, etc.
The paper size is 'double folio', with two pages printed on each side (four pages per sheet). After printing the paper was folded once to the size of a single page. Typically, five of these folded sheets (ten leaves, or twenty printed pages) were combined to a single physical section, called a quinternion, that could then be bound into a book ...