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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
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- 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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