Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

Table of Contents

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• gain
• gallic acid
• gallotannin
• galls
• gambier
• gamma cellulose
• gampi
• gang stitching
• gape
• gas black
• Gascon, Le
• gatefold
• gathering
• gathering machine
• gathering table
• gauffered edges
• g clamp
• g.e
• gel
• gelatin
• gelation
• gelation time
• gel strength
• general job binding
• general office stationery binding
• Gentile, Antonio
• German paring knife
• ghatti gum
• gift binding
• gilder's tip
• gilder's tub
• gilding
• gilding a la antique
• gilding bench
• gilding boards
• gilding powder
• gilding press
• gilt after rounding
• gilt all around
• gilt edges
• gilt extra
• gilt in the round
• gilt in the square
• gilt marbled edges
• gilt on landscapes
• gilt on red
• gilt on the rough
• gilt solid
• gilt top
• girdle book
• girdle calendar
• glacé goat
• glacial acetic acid
• glair
• glair brush
• glairing in
• glair pencil
• glass fibers
• glassine paper
• glass paper
• glass transition temperature
• glassy layer
• glazed
• glazed board
• glazed leather
• glazed morocco
• glazing
• gloss
• gloster marble
• glucose
• glucose-glycol paste
• glue
• glue brush
• glue line.
• glue pot
• glue size
• gluing up
• glycerol
• goatskin
• goat skiver
• goat vellum
• goffered edges
• go home
• gold
• gold and silver bindings
• gold and silver headband
• goldbeater's skin
• goldbeater's tissue
• goldbeating
• gold blocking
• gold book
• gold cleaner
• gold cushion
• gold edges
• gold foil
• gold ink
• gold knife
• gold leaf
• gold lifter
• gold marble
• goldmark
• gold net frame
• gold powder
• gold-powdered bindings
• gold roll
• gold rubber
• gold size
• gold sprinkle
• gold tip
• gold tooling
• good seconds
• Gosden, Thomas
• Gothic tabs
• gótico-mudéjar style
• gouffered edges
• gouge
• gouge index
• governmental style
• grade
• grain
• grain direction
• grained jute board
• grained leather
• grained skiver
• grained up
• graining
• graining board
• graining brush
• graining combs
• graining plates
• grain layer
• grain long
• grain pattern
• grain short
• grain side
• grain split
• grainy
• grainy edges
• grangerized
• granite board
• granite marble
• grass
• grass cloth
• gray cloth
• greaseproof
• Great Omar
• Greek style
• green
• green agate marble
• green earth
• green fleshing
• green porphyry marble
• green salted
• green salting
• green vitroil
• grid
• Grimaldi, Giovanni Battista
• Grolieresque
• Grolier, Jean
• grooves
• grosgrain
• ground substance
• groundwood free paper
• groundwood printing papers
• groundwood pulp
• growing flower
• grubby hides
• g.t.
• guard
• guard book
• guarded endpaper
• guarded in
• guarding
• guarding in pairs
• guard sheet
• guide boards
• guide of fair value
• guide word
• guild of contemporary bookbinders
• guilloche
• guillotine
• guinea edge
• gum
• gum arabic
• gum dragon
• gum hog
• gum juniper
• gummed cloth tapes
• gummed paper
• gum sandarac
• gum stripping tapes
• gum tragacanth
• gut
• gutta-percha binding
• gutter
• guttering
• gypsum