Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

Table of Contents

B

• b.a
• babul (bark)
• baby calf
• back
• back boarding
• backbone
• back cornering
• back cover
• backed
• back edge
• backed-filled finish
• backer
• back folds
• back gauge
• back gluing machine
• backing
• backing boards
• backing flannel
• backing hammer
• backing iron
• backing paper
• backing press
• back lining
• back margin
• back mark
• back-molding iron
• back saw
  
• backstrip
• back to fore edge
• bacterial resistance
• bactericide
• Badier, Florimond
• bagasse pulp
• bag binding
• Bagguley, Thomas
• ball tool
• bamboo
• band board
• band driver
• banding
• band nippers
• band pallet
• band pattern
• bands
• bands frayed
• bandstick
• barium carbonate
• barium hydroxide
• barium sulfate
• bark
• barkometer
• bark skiver
• bark tanned
• barm skin
  
• barrier sheet
• bar roll
• Barrow, William J.
• Bartlett, Roger
• barytes
• base
• base coat
• base fabric
• basic dyes
• basic size
• basil
• basis weight
• basket cloth
• bast fibers
• bathbrick
• batik
• bating
• batwing skiver
• Baumé
• bead
• beamhouse operations
• beater
• beater sized
• beating
• beating hammer
• beating stone
• bed
  
• Bedford, Francis
• Bedford style
• beeswax
• beeswing
• Belgian hare
• belly
• belly grain
• benched
• bench knife
• bench sewing
• Bentonite
• benzene
• bergamot
• beta cellulose
• between bands
• bevel
• beveled boards
• bhabar
• bibelot
• Bible paper
• Bible style
• bibliogenesis
• bibliogony
• bibliology
• bibliopedist
• bibliopegic
• bibliopegistic
  
• bibliopegy
• bid
• bight
• bind
• bind all
• bind "as is"
• binder
• binder's block
• binder's board
• binder's brass
• binder's cloth
• binder's record
• binder's stamp
• binder's ticket
• binder's title
• binder's waste
• bindery tapes
• bindery warehouse
• bind from sheets
• bind in
• binding
• binding agent
• binding before purchase
• binding book
• binding edge
• binding margin
• binding post
  
• binding priorities
• binding process
• binding program
• binding quirewise
• binding record
• binding schedules
• binding schemes
• binding slip
• binding specifications
• binding variations
• birch (bark)
• birch broom
• bite
• bites
• black book
• black edges
• blacking the squares
• black lead
• blacks
• black step
• blanc fixe
• blankbook
• blankbook binding
• blankbook frame
• blankbook paper
• blank cover
• blanking
  
• blank leaves
• blank rolling
• blank tooling
• bleach
• bleached groundwood paper
• bleached sulfate paper
• bleached sulfite paper
• bleaching
• bleaching powder
• bled
• bleed
• bleed border
• bleed illustration
• bleeding
• blesbock
• blind blocking
• blind finishing
• blind impressions
• blind lines
• blind-stamped panel
• blind stamping
• blind tooling
• blind warbles
• blisters
• block
• block book
• blocking
  
• blocking foil
• blocking powder
• blocking press
• block printing
• blood stone burnisher
• bloom
• blotting paper
• blue
• blue agate marble
• blue-and-gold edition
• blueprint paper
• blue stormont marble
• board
• board cutter
• boarded leather
• boarding
• board knife
• board machine
• board paper
• boards
• bock
• body paper
• body board
• bolt
• bolt knife
• bond
• bonding strength
  
• bond paper
• bond strength
• bone cutting
• bone dust
• bone glue
• Bonet Paul
• bonnet board
• book
• book and job folding machine
• book basis
• bookbinder
• bookbinder's type
• bookbindery
• bookbinding
• book blocks
• book cloth
• book conservation
• book corners
• book covers
• book crafts
• book-drill
• book forming and pressing machine
• book jacket
• book jacketing machine
• book label
• booklet
• book lice
  
• bookmark
• book papers
• bookplate
• book pocket
• book repairer
• book rest
• book sander
• books in sheets
• book sizes
• books of permanent interest
• books of temporary interest
• books of value
• book support
• book wall
• bookworms
• book wrapper
• boomer press
• border
• boric acid
• Borneo cutch
• bosses
• bottle rubber
• bottom color
• bottom combs
• bottom edge
• bottom split
• bouilly
  
• bound in
• bouquet marble
• box
• box pocket
• box side
• bradawl
• Bradel binding
• Braille book
• Braille printing paper
• branding
• brashiness
• brass boarded
• brass boards
• brayer
• brayer prints
• Brazil wood
• bread crumbs
• break
• breaking length
• breaking strength
• Brethren of the Common Life
• Bretons, Pere et Fils, Le
• brick guard
• brightening agents
• brighter binding
• brightness
• brightness reversion
  
• brime
• brining
• bristol board
• British marble
• brittleness
• broad
• brocade
• brochure
• broken
• broken line
• brokers
• bronzed edges
• bronze leaf
• bronze powder
• Brothers of the Common Life
• brush
• brushing
• brushing out
• B-stage
• buckle
• buckle folding
• buckram
• buckskin
• buds
• buffalo
• buffed leather
• buffing
  
• buffingnette
• buff leather
• build in
• building-in machine
• built-up lettering
• built-up patterns
• bulk
• bulked up
• bulk equivalents
• bulking book paper
• bumping hammer
• bundle
• bundling
• bundling press
• buried cords
• burnish
• burnished edges
• burnisher
• burnishing brushes
• burnt gypsum
• burnt sugar
• burnt umber
• burst factor
• bursting strength
• burst ratio
• butcher cuts
• butt
  
• butterstamp
• buttonhole stitch