This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...sheets were commonly used, folded in the middle, making twice as many leaves. When printing was introduced, the same plan was at first used, only one page being printed at a time. It later became common to print sev eral pages at once, the paper being folded and cut into pages afterward; the number of times it had to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1919 Excerpt: ...sheets were commonly used, folded in the middle, making twice as many leaves. When printing was introduced, the same plan was at first used, only one page being printed at a time. It later became common to print sev eral pages at once, the paper being folded and cut into pages afterward; the number of times it had to be folded showing the size the book was to be. Even to-day the same words are used to describe the size of a book; one where sheets are folded once down the middle, making two leaves, being called a folio; if the sheets are folded twice, making four leaves, it is called a quarto, etc. But as the size of the original sheet now varies considerably, these terms do not tell accurately the size of the book. Books vary in size from the Thumb Bible, which is a little larger than a postage stamp, to certain church books which are described as six feet high and four feet broad. Titles of books used to be very long, sometimes covering nearly the whole title-page; and the preface and dedication were formerly much more elaborate than now. Illustrations have been used in books for a long time. When books were written on parchment by hand, the ornamenting of the margins and the lettering ware often very elaborate. Book Binding before the days of printing and for a long time after was done by hand, the cover usually being made out of prepared skin and often ornamented with gold and jewels. At the present day books are usually sent to the binder as unfolded sheets of thirty-two pages each, the pages being already numbered. The folding is usually done by a machine, though sometimes by hand. One from each bundle of folded sheets is taken and they are laid together according to the number of the sheets, then pressed solidly together in a machine and sewed. After ...
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Add this copy of The New Student's Reference Work for Teachers, Students to cart. $71.30, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2019 by Wentworth Press.
