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Esoteric Lexicon of Rare Bookbinding Craft
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  • 1. Paste technique folding purposefully onto a foreign support
  • 2. Design element imitating material or form not essential to function
  • 3. Maker of boxes or cases for protecting books
  • 6. Ornate compartment or case for precious manuscripts
  • 7. Book design allowing removable, unbound pages
  • 9. A style of decorative leather inlay, hinting at Native designs
  • 10. Opposite side of the spine where pages are trimmed and often painted
  • 11. First or last leaf within a bound volume, often blank
  • 12. Decorative band at spine ends preventing splitting
Down
  • 4. Translucent paper once used as an interleaving guard
  • 5. Book size made by folding sheets twice, quarter of a full sheet
  • 8. Interior leaf adhered for decorative or protective effect
  • 13. Filling material between gatherings to enhance the spine’s smoothness
  • 14. Inner lining of a fine binding, often richly decorated

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