6-10 Items (52541)
The common structural parts of a book include: more...
 Home
Accessories
Antiquarian & Collectible
Audiobooks
Catalogs
Children's Books
Fiction Books
Magazine Back Issues
Magazine Subscriptions
Nonfiction Books
Other
Textbooks, Education
Wholesale, Bulk Lots
 Audiobooks (42939)
Books (46752)
 101-500 (40174)
11-50 Items (40173)
51-100 Items (52542)
6-10 Items (52541)
More than 500 (46759)
Up to 5 Items (46753)
Magazines (52543)
Other (26185)
Front cover: hardbound or softcover (paperback); the spine is the binding that joins the front and rear covers where the pages hinge;
Front endpaper;
Flyleaf;
Front matter
Frontispiece;
Title page;
Copyright page: typically verso of title page: shows copyright owner/date, credits, edition/printing, cataloguing details;
Table of contents;
List of figures;
List of tables;
Dedication;
Acknowledgments;
Foreword;
Preface;
Introduction;
;
Body: the text or contents, the pages often collected or folded into signatures; the pages are usually numbered sequentially, and often divided into chapters.;
Back matter
Appendix;
Glossary;
Index;
Notes;
Bibliography;
Colophon;
;
Flyleaf;
Rear endpaper;
Rear cover;
A thin marker, commonly made of paper or card, used to keep one's place in a book is bookmark. Bookmarks were used throughout the medieval period, consisting usually of a small parchment strip attached to the edge of folio (or a piece of cord attached to headband). Bookmarks in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were narrow silk ribbons bound into the book and become widespread in the 1850's. They were usually made from silk, embroidered fabrics or leather. Not until the 1880's, did paper and other materials become more common.
Sizes
-
The size of a modern book is based on the printing area of a common flatbed press. The pages of type were arranged and clamped in a frame, so that when printed on a sheet of paper the full size of the press, the pages would be right side up and in order when the sheet was folded, and the folded edges trimmed.
The most common book sizes are:
Quarto (4to): the sheet of paper is folded twice, forming four leaves (eight pages) approximately 11-13 inches (ca 30 cm) tall;
Octavo (8vo): the most common size for current hardcover books. The sheet is folded three times into eight leaves (16 pages) up to 9 ¾" (ca 23 cm) tall.;
DuoDecimo (12mo): a size between 8vo and 16mo, up to 7 ¾" (ca 18 cm) tall;
Sextodecimo (16mo): the sheet is folded four times, forming sixteen leaves (32 pages) up to 6 ¾" (ca 15 cm) tall;
Sizes smaller than 16mo are:
24mo: up to 5 ¾" (ca 13 cm) tall.;
32mo: up to 5" (ca 12 cm) tall.;
48mo: up to 4" (ca 10 cm) tall.;
64mo: up to 3" (ca 8 cm) tall.;
Small books can be called booklets.Sizes larger than quarto are:
Folio: up to 15" (ca 38 cm) tall.;
Elephant Folio: up to 23" (ca 58 cm) tall.;
Atlas Folio: up to 25" (ca 63 cm) tall.;
Double Elephant Folio: up to 50" (ca 127 cm) tall.;
The largest extant medieval manuscript in the world is Codex Gigas 92 × 50 × 22 cm. The world's largest book made of stone is in Kuthodaw Pagoda (Myanmar).
Read more at Wikipedia.org
|
Contact
