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19th century advertisements antiquarian auction bibliographical bibliophile binder binder's term blank boards book-collecting books printed booksellers bound British Museum calf called CANCELS catalogues century books COLLATION collectors COLOPHON colour common commonly covers decoration described distinct dropped letter dust-jacket earliest edges EDITION-BINDING Encyclopędia Britannica endpaper English engraved errata slip examples facsimile folded folio FORE-EDGE PAINTING GATHERING gilt half half-title ideal copy illustrations impression IMPRINT INCUNABULA inserted issued labels LAID paper leaf leather LEVANT loose manuscript MARBLED margin MCKERROW means Michael Sadleir misprints modern books MOROCCO normally number of copies occasionally octavo pamphlets PART-ISSUES plates printed books printer PRIVATE PRESS proofs publication published PUBLISHER'S CLOTH quarto QUIRES rare rarity re-backed RE-CASED RE-JOINTED reference book sections signed seldom sewn sheet SHORT-TITLE signature sometimes specialised spine STYLE OF BINDING tion title-page TRADE BINDING uncut usually variant vellum volume word wrappers