Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
band board
A wooden block about 9 by 12 inches, 6 inches thick at the head and 5 at the foot, on which headbanders in library binderies used to lay their zinc boards with dampened headbands, prior to attaching them to the text blocks. (
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