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