Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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lift

1. A quantity of sheets of paper or board which can readily be lifted from one operation to another. 2. The maximum number of sheets of paper placed at one time under the knife of a cutting machine. 3. The thickness of a "section" sewn in an oversewing machine. (139 , 316 )




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