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Binding waste

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Especially in medieval and early modern bookbinding, it was common to use discarded or defective sheets to reinforce bindings, even if they had already been used for writing or printing. This practice has led to the survival of texts which may otherwise have been lost. Binding waste can also help to
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provide a date, and in some cases a location, for the manuscript or printed texts which it accompanies.
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A book in Latin, bound in Hebrew manuscript waste, with German printed waste used to line the spine.
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Hidden treasures: Encounters with binder's waste in Stanford Libraries Conservation Department
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Binder's waste, derived from discarded books, has been distinguished from 'printer's waste' (
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The Myth of Print Culture: Essays on Evidence, Textuality, and Bibliographical Method
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The Surprising Practice of Binding Old Books With Scraps of Even Older Books
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Binder's waste visible beneath the spine of a 17th-century printed book
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For the process of turning waste paper into new paper products, see
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A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology, 1450-2000
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Index

Paper recycling

parchment
bookbinding
disjecta membra
endpapers
proofs

Fragmentology
Palimpsest
John Carter
Nicolas Barker
ABC for Book Collectors
Archived
Wayback Machine
'Printer's Waste/Binding Waste'
The Surprising Practice of Binding Old Books With Scraps of Even Older Books
Hidden treasures: Encounters with binder's waste in Stanford Libraries Conservation Department
Disjecta membra and recycled bookbindings
Categories
Bookbinding
Repurposing

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