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2. Bookbinding - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

3. Folio - Wikipedia

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   The title-page of the Shakespeare First Folio, 1623 Single folio from a large Qur'an, North Africa, 8th c. (Khalili Collection). The term "folio" (from Latin folium 'leaf' [1]) has three interconnected but distinct meanings in the world of books and printing: first, it is a term for a common method of arranging sheets of paper into book form, folding the sheet only once, and a term for a book ...

4. Imposition - Wikipedia

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   To understand how the pages are related to each other, an imposition dummy may be used. This is made by folding several sheets of paper in the way the press will print and fold the product. A little copy is then created, and this can help paginate the product. [1] In the example above, a 16-page book is prepared for printing.

5. Canons of page construction - Wikipedia

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   Recto page from a rare Blackletter Bible (1497). The canons of page construction are historical reconstructions, based on careful measurement of extant books and what is known of the mathematics and engineering methods of the time, of manuscript-framework methods that may have been used in Medieval- or Renaissance-era book design to divide a page into pleasing proportions.

6. Help:Books/Printed books - Wikipedia

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   Title, subtitle and editor can be set or changed here. Further users can customize the cover by selecting an image from within the book to appear on the front of the book, as well as setting a background color. There is a preview which shows what your selected articles (only the first N pages) will look like in a printed book.

7. 9 misprints that are worth a ton of money. Do you have a copy?

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   Penguin books in Australia recently had to reprint 7,000 copies of a now-collectible book because one of the recipes called for "salt and freshly ground black people." 9 misprints that are worth a ...