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... CALLED FOR A favourite expression with booksellers ' cataloguers ; e.g. ' without the advertisement leaf called for by Hock ' , ' with the misprint on p . 113 , as called for by Sherry ' , ' with the half - title in volume 2 ( none called ...
... CALLED FOR A favourite expression with booksellers ' cataloguers ; e.g. ' without the advertisement leaf called for by Hock ' , ' with the misprint on p . 113 , as called for by Sherry ' , ' with the half - title in volume 2 ( none called ...
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... called DIVISIONAL TITLES . Printers sometimes , and the Bibliographical Society of America , use the old fashioned term bastard title . Some American bibliographers call half - titles fly - titles and vice versa , which is maddening ...
... called DIVISIONAL TITLES . Printers sometimes , and the Bibliographical Society of America , use the old fashioned term bastard title . Some American bibliographers call half - titles fly - titles and vice versa , which is maddening ...
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... called WIRE ( or laid ) LINES and CHAIN LINES respectively . ( WOVE paper is made on a mesh of wires woven together , and in its natural form shows no such marks . ) Before about 1800 all paper , both laid and wove , was made by hand ...
... called WIRE ( or laid ) LINES and CHAIN LINES respectively . ( WOVE paper is made on a mesh of wires woven together , and in its natural form shows no such marks . ) Before about 1800 all paper , both laid and wove , was made by hand ...
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19th century A. E. HOUSMAN advertisements American antiquarian booksellers auction AUTHORISED EDITION bibliographical binder blank leaves BLOCKBOOKS boards book-collecting books printed calf called CANCELS catalogue century books COLLATION collectors COLOPHON colour common commonly continued covers decoration described distinct dropped letter dust-jacket early edges EDITION-BINDING Encyclopædia Britannica endpaper English engraved errata slip examples facsimile folded folio FORE-EDGE FORE-EDGE PAINTING French GATHERING gilt half-title illustrations impression INCUNABULA inserted issued labels leaf loose manuscript margin MCKERROW means Michael Sadleir modern books MOROCCO normally nowadays number of copies occasionally octavo original pamphlets PAPER COPY PART-ISSUES plates printed books printer PRIVATE PRESS proofs publication published PUBLISHER'S CLOTH quarto QUIRES rare rarity RE-BACKED RE-CASED RE-JOINTED reprint Sadleir sections signed seldom sewn sheet SHORT-TITLE signature sometimes Sotheby's specialised spine Stanley Morison style tion title-page TRADE BINDING uncut usually variant vellum VERSO volume word wrappers