Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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index tab

A small piece of leather. paper, card, or fabric attached to. and projecting from the fore edge of a book and bearing in progressive order, usually from head to tail, letters, words, symbols, or other indexing information. See a1so: THUMB INDEX . (74 )




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