Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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reversed cloth

A book cloth used with the reverse (unfinished) side out. The practice of covering books in this manner began in the late 1880s and was important at the time because, while washable cloths were not common, the reverse side of the fabrics then in use were not affected by water. (236 )




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