Bookbinding (Topical Term)

Bookman's glossary, 1983: binding (the structural materials that hold a book together; in book manufacturing the process of assembling the finished books, includes folding, gathering, collating, sewing, tipping, gluing off, trimming, rouding, and backing, lining, casing-in, jacketing. Analytical bibliography, also known as critical bibliography, the study of books as physical objects, of the materials of which books are made, and the way in which they are put together, with the ultimate purpose of resolving questions of a book's origin, history, and text)