Beginner Vocabulary

Hardcover Book Anatomy

  • Text Block
  • Endpapers
  • Flyleaf
  • Pastedown
  • Front Cover
  • Spine
  • Head
  • Tail
  • Foredge
  • Spine
  • Endbands
  • Gutter
  • Signature
  • Joint
  • Hinge
  • Hollow

Typeset Terms

  • Typeset
  • Impose
  • Front Matter
  • Body
  • Back Matter
  • Colophon
  • Title Page
  • Bastard Title
  • Errata
  • Appendix
  • Frontispiece
  • imprint
  • Epigraph
  • Margin
  • Header
  • Footer
  • Dinkus
  • Drop Cap
  • Typeface
  • Collate

Construction Terms

  • Signature
  • Folio
  • Page
  • Leaf
  • Quarto
  • Octavo
  • Sextodecimal
  • Sewn Binding
  • Glued Binding
  • Open Spine
  • Hollow
  • Tightback
  • Rounded
  • Backed
  • Bookboard
  • Grain
  • turn-ins