Book design

thumb|250px|Bibliographies at the University Library of Graz Bibliography (from and ), as a discipline, is traditionally the academic study of books as physical, cultural objects; in this sense, it is also known as bibliology (from ). English author and bibliographer John Carter describes bibliography as a word having two senses: one, a list of books for further study or of works consulted by an author (or enumerative bibliography); the other one, applicable for collectors, is "the study of books as physical objects" and "the systematic description of books as objects" (or descriptive bibliog

right|thumb|Central European (Northern) type of finished parchment made of goatskin (material)|goatskin stretched on a wooden frame thumb|Parchment with a quill and ink

thumb|right |A glossary of Islamic law|Islamic legal terminology

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An epilogue or epilog (from Greek ἐπίλογος epílogo, "conclusion" from ἐπί epi, "in addition" and λόγος logos, "word") is a piece of writing at the end of a work of literature, usually used to bring closure to the work. It is presented from the perspective of within the story. When the author steps in and speaks directly to the reader, that is more properly considered an afterword. The opposite is a prologue—a piece of writing at the beginning of a work of literature or drama, usually used to open the story and capture interest. Some genres, for example television programs and video games, call

manuscript in which the text is supplemented by the addition of decoration

label affixed to a book to indicate ownership

standard size of paper

thumb|A historiated initial (the letter O) from an illuminated manuscript|alt=A large letter O in a frame. At the centre of the letter, there is an illustration of Moses receiving the Ten Commandments on tablets of stone.

brief statement of a book's own information, such as publisher, location, and date of publication

thumb|right|400px| Magna Carta, written in Latin on vellum, held at the [[British Library]] thumb|right|267px|A vellum deed dated 1638, with pendent seal attached

thumb|The foreword to Men I Have Painted, by John McLure Hamilton; 1921 thumb|Foreword, to a 1900 book in German A foreword is a (usually short) piece of writing, sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature. Typically written by someone other than the primary author of the work, it often tells of some interaction between the writer of the foreword and the book's primary author or the story the book tells. Later editions of a book sometimes have a new foreword prepended (appearing before an older foreword, if there was one), which might explain how that edition diff

list of words or phrases with pointers to their locations

short quotation or saying at the beginning of a book, chapter or article (use Q3589144 for inscription on an object)

page at or near the front of a book on which its title, subtitle, author, publisher, and edition is displayed

A postscript (P.S., PS., or PS) may be a sentence, a paragraph, or occasionally many paragraphs added, often hastily and incidentally, after the signature of a letter or (sometimes) the main body of an essay or book. For such longer works it may also be known as an afterword or subscription. The term comes from the Latin "post scriptum", an expression meaning "written after" (which may be interpreted in the sense of "that which comes after the writing").

section of a work, most commonly a book

illustration facing a book's title page

protective covering, often decorative, used to bind together the pages of a book

list of the parts of a book or document organized in the order in which the parts appear

brief marginal notation of the meaning of a word or wording in a text

title of a book, or any other published text or work of art

expression of friendly connection or thanks by the author towards another person

early printing technique

paper wrap for a book

__NOTOC__ A preface () or proem () is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the work's author. An introductory essay written by a different person is a foreword and precedes an author's preface. The preface often closes with acknowledgments of those who assisted in the literary work.

thumb|upright=1.35|This piece of Wahrheit und Dichtung by Melchior Kirchhofer has pencil notes that might have been written by [[Josef Eiselein.]] thumb|The Glosas Emilianenses are glosses added to this Latin codex that are considered the oldest surviving phrases written in the [[Castilian language.]] thumb|A page from an illuminated Armenian language|Armenian manuscript with painted marginalia

page=5|thumb|Half-title page of Picturesque New Guinea (1887), with ornamentation above and below the title The half-title or bastard title is a page carrying nothing but the title of a book—as opposed to the title page, which also lists subtitle, author, publisher and edition. The half-title is usually counted as the first page (p. i) in a printed book. The half-title can have some ornamentation of the book's title, or it can be plain text.

subdivision of a chapter in a book

"front" and "back" sides of a leaf of paper

symbol used as a trademark by printers

styling, formatting and designing the layout of a book's contents

thumb|Drollery detail from the Hours of Charles the Noble thumb|upright|Page from the 14th-century Luttrell Psalter, showing two drolleries in the right margin.

early printed book in which each page is printed from a single block

number itself, which may appear in various places on the page

thumb|The 1906 front dust jacket of Gelett Burgess|Burgess's Are You a Bromide?, which contains the first use of the word "blurb."

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text forming the main content of a printed or digital work (as opposed to additional elements such as headlines, images, charts, footnotes)

thumb|150px|Books from Napoleon Bonaparte's library with his supralibros thumb|150px|Supralibros showing the coat of arms of Count Hieronymus von Colloredo, [[archbishop of Salzburg (1772) on an education book]] A supralibros (from Latin supra = on and libros = books in the accusative case) is a coat of arms or monogram indicating the ownership of a book. Unlike the bookplate or ex-libris, which is stamped or pasted inside a book, the supralibros is applied to the book's cover. It is called "superexlibris" by the Library of Congress.

page of mainly geometrical ornamentation in an illuminated manuscript

illustration which appears in books

size of a book, manuscript, or sheet of paper resulting from folding standard sheets into multiple pages

often the second part of the title of a work

an ornament placed above the text matter of a page or at the beginning of a chapter

luxurious book cover using metalwork in gold or silver, jewels, or ivory, perhaps in addition to more usual bookbinding material for book covers such as leather, velvet, or other cloth

page that is devoid of content and may be unexpected

book with an extra covering of leather allowing the book to be hung from the girdle

strip of paper looped around a book or other product

thumb|upright=1.35|Books and slipcases A slipcase is a five-sided box, usually made of high-quality cardboard, into which binders, books or book sets are slipped for protection, leaving the spine exposed. Special editions of books are often slipcased for a stylish appearance when placed on a bookshelf. A few publishers, such as the Folio Society, publish nearly all their books in slipcases.

American printing and communications company

scene painted on the fore-edges of a book

typesetting practice