Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
flyswing
A very thin
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used extensively for title labels on cloth- and leather-bound books, and generally lettered in gold. In library binding, the "flyswing" has been replaced by labels of paper and (occasionally) cloth. (
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