Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
pasting-down open
The traditional method of pasting the board papers to the boards in hand binding (and almost always when it is a leather binding), while the boards are open and resting on the block. (
161
,
335
)
[Search all CoOL documents]
![[CoOL]](/icons/sm_cool.gif){kind=icon}