Understanding the Anatomy of a Book

This video is designed to help people understand some of the jargon used by booksellers when describing the physical aspects of a book. I’m sure you can figure out what the spine is but do you know your hinge from your joint? What about the endpapers? I recommend the AbeBooks glossary for learning more about used and rare book terms.

Posted by Richard Davies on October 13, 2011.

Categories: AbeBooks, books, booksellers, publishers, video

One Response

1. Thank you for your video. It was very informative but didn’t answer my question. Not your fault because you were describing the physical anatomy of a book and I’m interested more in the content.

   It was well done.

   by Carol Lippincott on Jun 9, 2012 at 2:10 pm