book cover
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protective covering, often decorative, used to bind together the pages of a book
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Vinony's link graph records 607 inbound references to book cover, and connects out to initial, International Standard Book Number and postscript.
Vinony files it under Bookbinding, Book covers and Book design.
Vinony links it to 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- specialized term
- Subclass of
- binding
- Has part
- dust jacket
- Image
- The St Cuthbert Gospel of St John. (formerly known as the Stonyhurst Gospel) is the oldest intact European book. - Upper cover (Add Ms 89000) (cropped).jpg
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- Category:Book covers
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- Book covers
- uses
- lamination
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- February 17
- has characteristic
- decoration
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Encyclopedic overview
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 dust jackets, ring-binding, and older forms such as the nineteenth-century "paper-boards" and the traditional types of hand-binding. The term bookcover is also commonly used for a book cover image in library management software. This article is concerned with modern mechanically produced covers.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “book cover” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.