Most books have the unopened or the ragged edges 'cut' during the final binding process to provide smooth edges. Often (if not always), the uncut book (sometimes unopened as well) was issued in a temporary binding (paper covered boards or 'publishers cloth'), to be cut by the binder once the owner decided on the leather binding for his book.
uncut: a book is said to be uncut if the edges of the paper have not been cut with the plough or guillotine. Cf. unopened. 3. The difference between “unopened” and “uncut” is significant for the history of reading: unopened leaves are a pretty good indication that a book wasn’t read when it was new. Uncut leaves, on the other hand ...
Uncut books refers to the now probably obsolete practice of books having pages with untrimmed edges which also bind them together. These must be cut before the pages can be seperated, and the book ...
'Uncut pages', or simply 'uncut', traditionally refers to a book which has not been trimmed by rebinding. Prior to the mid-nineteenth century publishers often sold books with a paper or cloth binding intended to be temporary. The purchaser of the book would then make arrangements with a binder to have the book cut and suitably bound, typically ...
Since WWI, books have generally been cut along the folded edge, even if one or both of the other edges remained uncut. During the era when books were transitioning from being uncut to cut, there was a minor outcry from some readers who thought that encouraging people to read too fast would mean they are merely reading for sensation, and don't ...
The world of books is vast and diverse, with various genres, authors, and publication styles. One fascinating aspect of book collecting and reading is the existence of uncut books. Uncut books, also known as unopened or uncut pages, refer to books where the pages have not been separated or cut, often found in older publications. This unique ...
The person purchasing the book would cut the pages themselves often leaving a deckle look. And some publishers trimmed excessively, or "cropped" pages. This would often leave little margin and the was thought the product of cost-cutting by the publisher. These days it's produced artificially at the discretion of the designer. I like it on some ...
Uncut books are those that have not had their pages cut; these sheets may also be known as uncut sheets. An uncut book allows the reader to observe an entire spread or two side-by-side pages as they would appear in an actual finished book, making this invaluable when trying to gain an idea of layout or design; additionally, it helps in assessing whether a book has been bound properly.
Uncut: A book whose margins have not been trimmed. Typically, a binder would slice off the edges of a book’s text block after binding, thereby getting a nice smooth edge to all the leaves. If a book was rebound often, this inevitably meant that the margins would get smaller and smaller until in the most extreme cases, some of the text itself might be cut off.
In The Great Gatsby, a book which was published at the tail end of the era of the uncut page, a character tells of Gatsby’s extensive library of books, which on examination he finds consists entirely of real books — with unopened pages. “See!” he cried triumphantly. “It’s a bona-fide piece of printed matter. It fooled me.
Some book clubs blind stamp their copies with a small square or round mark in the lower right hand corner of the rear board to distinguish them from trade copies. Boards The stiff binding material that surrounds most books. Book Club Edition (BCE) A separate edition of a book usually printed especially for a book club. Practice varies among ...
a book is said to be uncut if the edges of the paper have not been cut with the plough or guillotine. Unopened: a book sold with the bolts uncut, to be hand-slit by the purchaser with a paper-knife. It is then said to be opened. An uncut book made from laid paper still has the deckle edges. An uncut copy of a book is noted in a copy-specific note.
Uncut may be used by the unwary cataloguer when the term unopened would be more accurate: uncut has the specific bibliographical meaning that the book has survived with the rough edges (deckle edges) of its pages untrimmed by bookbinders. This makes it easier to see many kinds of bibliographical evidence about the book’s production.
I’m finally getting around to reading it (I have a long backlog of books in my reading list) and I discovered about 70% of it has uncut pages. As a personal rule, I don’t annotate or mark antique books. But I’ve never had a book with uncut pages before, and although I could easily get a pdf online, I had hoped to read it physically.
Uncut: a book is described as being uncut when the edges have not been trimmed or cut by a guillotine or the plough. Use: liturgical forms or customs peculiar to a diocese, a monastic complex, or sometimes a group (e.g., use of the Franciscans, Carthusians, Rouen, Rome, etc.), differing slightly from region to region, but never amounting to a ...
Uncut. refers to the edges of a book in an untrimmed state, edges are somewhat uneven, also see "Deckle edges".
a book with signatures which have never been cut as opposed to untrimmed and uneven (see "Uncut"); unopened books retain the folds of the original gathering and contain many pages which cannot be read without first opening the pages with a knife. Some collectors prefer an unopened book because it indicates that the book has never been read ...
