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Book investigating - step 1 - Anatomy of a Book
Fly-leaves - blank pages to protect the book
People often wrote inscriptions on the fly leaves.
Paste-downs - paper pasted onto the inside front cover
Sometimes people put their bookplates on the inside front cover.
Binding - the book's cover, often made of leather
Bindings were sometimes decorated to suit the taste of a book's
owner.
Text Block - pages with words and pictures
Sometimes people wrote notes on the pages.
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The clues that you'll need are found in different
parts of the book. Each of these parts has a name. Historians, librarians
and book-collectors look at these clues to build up a picture of
the Private Lives of Books. However, you don't need to be an expert
to become a book investigator.
Click on the buttons to find out
about how the different parts of the book are put together. |
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