Bookbinding
is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded
or unfolded sheets of paper or other material.
Modern commercial binding
There are various commercial techniques in use today.
Commercially-produced books today tend to be of one of four categories:
A hardcover or hardbound book has rigid covers and is stitched in the
spine. Looking from the top of the spine, the book can be seen to consist
of a number of signatures bound together.
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When the book is opened in the middle of a signature, the binding
threads are visible. The signatures in modern hardcover books are
typically octavo (a single sheet folded three times), though they may
also be folio, quarto, or 16mo. See the discussion below and book
size. Unusually large and heavy books are sometimes bound with wire or
cable.
The covers of modern hardback books are of thick cardboard. Until the
mid 20th century those of mass-produced books were covered in cloth,
but from that period onwards most publishers adopted clothette, a kind
of textured paper which vaguely resembles cloth but is easily
differentiated on close inspection.
A variation of the hardcover which is more durable is the
calf-binding, 'half-calf' or 'full-calf' (also called 'full-bound' or
simply 'leather bound') where the cover is either fully or half clad
in leather, usually from a calf. |
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