Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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cloth boards

1. An old term for PRESSING BOARDS used to create the joints of a case binding during the casing-in operation. 2. An obsolete term for the boards of a book. 3. A term sometimes used to indicate a book bound in cloth. 4. See: CLOTH-LINED BOARD . (256 )




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