BOOK

(4.8 boc; Ger. buch), the name formerly applied to any written tablet or document; now used to describe a print literary division work, of such stitched a work, and as bound; ‘Book also II.’ Paradise Lost. A modern printed b. described et according to the size of its pages, which size is governed by the numof (folio) times is 2 single folded. sheet ‘Thus of a printing folio b. consists of sheets folded once, forming leaves, or four pages; in a quarto sheet pages); is in folded octavo twice ft is (four folded leaves threo (eight leaves, sixteen pages), and on down to smaller sizes. The most common size to-day is crown octavo (Cr. vo), which fis the size of the usual Popular novel, and many other b's; while favorite smaller size is that known as foolscap octavo (Fcp. 8vo), which is often for b’s of verse, and with uncut eaves of deckle-edged (untrimmed paper). The first page of a printed b. is called recto, and usually contains the bare or, if it is a long and elaborate one, portion only, and is known as the half-tttle page. The back of it is left blank, and is called the verso. follows the title-page proper, bearing year of publication, though there growing tendency at present to the date on the back of the title-page, thus: ‘First printed in 1912.’ The page is followed in proper order by dedication, preface, and contents In early printed b’s the name of printer and the date and place of cation were inscribed at the end b.; this appendix (containing sometimes a note as to the nature of the b.) called the colophon. In early printed the leaves were not numbered, pioneer in leaf numeration being Cologne printer who first made use in about the year 1470, while pagination was a product of the XVI. cent. Duff’s Early Printed Books Jacobi’s Some Notes on Books Printing (1902). See CENSORSHIP.