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folding
falsing av trykkeark
Note (en)
Note
The process of folding printed sheets into gatherings according to format. This is work that was costed separately in some early bookbinders price lists and would either have been done within the booktrade before the book was sent to the binder or by the binder.
Note (nb)
Note
bretting av trykkeark for hånd eller i falsemaskin til legg
Scope note source reference
source-reference-488
Source
Etherington & Roberts (1982)
Roberts, Matt, Don Etherington, and Margaret R. Brown. 1982. Bookbinding and the conservation of books: a dictionary of descriptive terminology. Washington: Library of Congress.
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