Book Terminology Gutter

These two products have binding types that are clamped and held together with glue.

Book terminology gutter.

Cranky says bookbinding has its own unique terminology. Take a stab at guessing and be entered to win a 50 biblio gift certificate. Often used interchangeably with the term joint which should be used to designate the outside or exterior portion of the. Keep that in mind when laying out your book page.

And no you don t have to keep your mind out of it. When you re looking at a book page spread you ll have two gutters together doubling the apparent space. The inner margin of the leaves of a bound book. Cranky is now retired and no longer rebinding books.

Gutter margin margins are the blank spaces around the type area on a book page but the inside margin has the special name gutter and it is always the margin on the bound edge of the book page. Can also refer to the outer indentation that is created by the joining of the boards and spine. A gutter is the section of the page that leads into the binding of perfect bound books and hard cover books. Tail the tail is the bottom part of the book.

This process will cause a curve of the pages coming from the spine when the book is open. See our page of descriptive terms. Can you guess which first edition cover the image above comes from. Hinge the hinge of a book is the section between the cover boards and the spine it s the part that bends when the book is opened.

If you have a book needing rebinding please check the recommendation message on the home page. Seuss s first published book. So don t be the dummy who didn t know his face from the gutter who turns out spineless and half bound please note. Headband tailbands headbands are coloured threads normally mercerized cotton or silk which are wrapped around a core of some sort normally vellum backed with leather and are.

Gutter parts and terminology explained just like your windows siding and doors gutters have their own variety of connecting parts that make them function properly. Home book collecting glossary of terms gutter. Half binding a book which has had its spine and corners covered in one material such as cloth or leather and the rest of the front and rear covers covered in another such as boards paper or cloth. This in contrast to a book quarter bound which has a spine covered in one material and the boards covered in another.

Adjacent inner margins of facing pages when book is open. The inside portion of the flexible area where book cover meets the book spine. Read the rules here. Gutter inner margins of two facing pages.