Outline of books
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to books:
Book – set of written, printed, illustrated, or blank sheets, made of ink, paper, parchment, or other materials, usually fastened together to hinge at one side.
[edit] What type of thing is a book?
Books can be described as all of the following:
- Type of publication –
- Format of literature –
[edit] Types of books
[edit] Physical parts of a book
- Leaf – a single sheet, the left-hand page of which is the verso, and right-hand page is the recto
- Book cover – protective covering used to bind together the pages of a book.
- Dust jacket – detachable outer cover, usually made of paper and printed with text and illustrations. This outer cover has folded flaps that hold it to the front and back book covers.
[edit] Contents of a book
[edit] Subject matter
[edit] Structure of book content
- Belly band
- Flap
- Endpaper
- Book cover
- Top edge
- Fore edge
- Tail edge
- Right page, recto
- Left page, verso
- Gutter
Book design – the common structural parts of a book include:
- Front cover: hardbound or softcover (paperback); the spine is the binding that joins the front and rear covers where the pages hinge.
- Front endpaper
- Flyleaf: The blank leaf or leaves following the front free endpaper.
- Front matter
- Frontispiece
- Title page
- Copyright page: typically verso of title page: shows copyright owner/date, credits, edition/printing, cataloguing details
- Table of contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- Body: the text or contents, the pages often collected or folded into signatures; the pages are usually numbered sequentially, and often divided into chapters.
- Back matter
- Flyleaf: The blank leaf or leaves (if any) preceding the back free endpaper.
- Rear endpaper
- Rear cover
[edit] Study of books
[edit] Book collections
[edit] Book identification and classification
[edit] Classification systems
- Bliss bibliographic classification (BC)
- Chinese Library Classification (CLC)
- Colon Classification
- Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)
- Harvard-Yenching Classification
- Library of Congress Classification (LCC)
- New Classification Scheme for Chinese Libraries
- Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)
[edit] History of books
- History of writing
- History of scrolls
- History of the codex
- History of printing
- Moveable type
- Printing Revolution
- Developments
- Woodblock printing (200)
- Movable type (1040)
- Printing press (1454)
- Etching (ca. 1500)
- Mezzotint (1642)
- Aquatint (1768)
- Lithography (1796)
- Chromolithography (1837)
- Rotary press (1843)
- Offset printing (1875)
- Hectograph (19th century)
- Hot metal typesetting (1886)
- Mimeograph (1890)
- Screen printing (1907)
- Spirit duplicator (1923)
- Dye-sublimation (1957)
- Phototypesetting (1960s)
- Dot matrix printer (1964)
- Laser printing (1969)
- Thermal printing (ca. 1972)
- Inkjet printing (1976)
- Stereolithography (1986)
- Digital press (1993)
- 3D printing (ca. 2003)
[edit] Book production
- Book publishing –
- Writing –
- Author –
- Editing –
- Printing –
- Bookbinding –
[edit] Book distribution
- Bookselling –
- Libraries –
[edit] Politics of books
[edit] Book culture
[edit] Specific books
[edit] Books by title
- Lists of books
- Lists of novels
- Lists of controversial books
- List of banned books
- List of books by genre or type
- List of book titles taken from literature
[edit]
[edit] Publications about books
New York Review of Books[1] &ndash an American magazine containing lietary criticism, and discussions of the contents of various books.
[edit] Persons influential in relation to books
- Johannes Gutenberg – inventor of movable type.
- Lord Stanhope – built a press out of cast iron, reducing force required by 90%, doubling the size of the printed area.[2]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "Home". The New York Review of Books. http://www.nybooks.com/. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
- ^ Meggs, Philip B. A History of Graphic Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1998. (pp 130–133) ISBN 0-471-29198-6
[edit] External links
| Find more about Books on Wikipedia's sister projects: | |
 |
Definitions and translations from Wiktionary |
 |
Images and media from Commons |
 |
Learning resources from Wikiversity |
 |
News stories from Wikinews |
 |
Quotations from Wikiquote |
 |
Source texts from Wikisource |
 |
Textbooks from Wikibooks |
- This outline displayed as a mindmap, at wikimindmap.com
- Centre for the History of the Book
- Manuscripts, Books, and Maps: The Printing Press and a Changing World
- Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
- Old Books, How to find information on publication history and value (1998) Smithsonian Institution Libraries
- Bookbinding and the Conservation of books, A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, 1982 by Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington
- IOBA glossary of book terms
- Project Gutenberg - Free e-Books
- Words at Large: The best in books from CBC.ca
- History of books
- Centre for the History of the Book
- Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing
- History of the Book at the American Antiquarian Society
- Rare Book School at the University of Virginia
- Toronto Centre for the Book
- Dan Traister's Page
- Internet resources in Palaeography and Manuscript Studies from Senate House Library, University of London
- Development of the Printed Page at the University of South Carolina Library's Digital Collections Page
- Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland
- Consortium of European Research Libraries
- 12 - 17th century manuscripts, including Vulgates, Books of Hours, Wills, Legal Contracts and Medicinal Texts, Center for Digital Initiatives, University of Vermont Libraries
|
|
|||||
