endpapers
Cover's inner sheets
Endpapers are the sheets of paper at the front and back of a hardcover book, half pasted to the inside of the cover and half forming a flyleaf.
They attach the book block to its binding and often feature decorative patterns, maps, or illustrations: The antique atlas had marbled endpapers.
Also called endsheets.
Blank page in books
- hingeMovable connecting joint
- endleafBook's interior lining sheet
- marbledStreaked with irregular patterns
- signaturesHandwritten names as authentication
gathering · sewing · binding · spine · headband · guard · mull · lining
Streaky fat distribution
- patternRecurring arrangement or template
- illustrationPicture explaining something
- designPurposeful creative planning
- motifRecurring thematic element
gilding · tooling · embossing · printed · decorative · ornamental · chromolithography · woodcut
Record of ownership
- conditionState or stipulation
- foxingBrown paper stains
- restorationReturning something to condition
- conservationPreventing waste or loss
antiquarian · rare · inscribed · bookplate · ex-libris · ownership · pristine · original
flyleaf
Blank page in books
- hingeMovable connecting joint
- endleafBook's interior lining sheet
- marbledStreaked with irregular patterns
signatures · gathering · sewing · binding · spine · headband · guard · mull · lining · adhesive
marbling
Streaky fat distribution
- patternRecurring arrangement or template
- illustrationPicture explaining something
- designPurposeful creative planning
motif · gilding · tooling · embossing · printed · decorative · ornamental · chromolithography · woodcut · pictorial
provenance
Record of ownership
- conditionState or stipulation
- foxingBrown paper stains
- restorationReturning something to condition
conservation · antiquarian · rare · inscribed · bookplate · ex-libris · ownership · pristine · original · period
vellum
Prepared calfskin for writing
- parchmentTreated hide for manuscripts
- handmadeCreated manually, not mechanically
- laidPast tense of place
wove · rag · acid-free · coated · Japanese · mulberry · linen · cotton · archival
front
Forward-facing side
tipped · conjugate · double · single · folded · attached · glued · pasted · sewn · reinforced
- publishingpublishers, editors, editor, publishing house, books
- book partspage, pages, cover, index, chapter
- book termsfolio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, page
- document partstitle, page, paragraph, sentence, chapter
- picture bookspicture book, picture books, illustrations, storybook, storybook art
- book collectingbibliophiles, first editions, rare books, first edition, antiquarian
endpapersspine
Column of vertebrae
center spread · signatures · gutter · frontispiece · colophon
endpapersspine
Column of vertebrae
dust jacket · headbands · signatures · slipcase · binding