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  2. Book design - Wikipedia

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    Book design. Design by Hans Holbein the Younger for a metalwork book cover (or treasure binding) Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various components and elements of a book into a coherent unit. In the words of renowned typographer Jan Tschichold (1902–1974), book design, "though ...

  3. Book size - Wikipedia

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    The size and proportions of a book depend on the size of the original full sheet. If a sheet 480 by 640 mm (19 by 25 in) is used to print a quarto, the resulting untrimmed pages, will be approximately half as large in each dimension: width 240 mm ( 9⁄ in) and height 320 mm ( 12⁄ in). An octavo page, oriented a quarter turn from the full ...

  4. Book cover - Wikipedia

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    Book cover. Front cover of the St Cuthbert Gospel, c. 700; the original tooled red goatskin binding is the earliest surviving Western binding. A book cover is any protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book. Beyond the familiar distinction between hardcovers and paperbacks, there are further alternatives and additions, such as ...

  5. Goose Island (Chicago) - Wikipedia

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    Goose Island. /  41.90444°N 87.65417°W  / 41.90444; -87.65417. Goose Island is a 160 acre artificial island in Chicago, Illinois, formed by the North Branch of the Chicago River on the west and the North Branch Canal on the east. It is about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) long and 0.5 miles (0.80 km) across at its widest point.

  6. Octavo - Wikipedia

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    Octavo metrics compared to the folio and quarto. Octavo, a Latin word meaning "in eighth" or "for the eighth time", [1] (abbreviated 8vo, 8º, or In-8) is a technical term describing the format of a book, which refers to the size of leaves produced from folding a full sheet of paper on which multiple pages of text were printed to form the individual sections (or gatherings) of a book.

  7. Quarto - Wikipedia

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    The actual size of a quarto book depends on the size of the full sheet of paper on which it was printed. A demy quarto (abbreviated demy 4to) is a chiefly British term referring to a book size of about 11.25 by 8.75 inches (286 by 222 mm), a medium quarto 9 by 11.5 inches (230 by 290 mm), a royal quarto 10 by 12.5 inches (250 by 320 mm), and a ...

  8. Hardcover - Wikipedia

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    Hardcover. A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound [1]) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather ). [1] It has a flexible, sewn spine which allows the book to lie flat ...

  9. Hyde Park, Chicago - Wikipedia

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    Hyde Park is a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, located on and near the shore of Lake Michigan 7 miles (11 km) south of the Loop. It is one of the city's 77 municipally recognized community areas . Hyde Park's boundaries and subdivisions have several local definitions. The community area's formal boundaries are 51st Street ...

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