Introduction to binding

Binding is the artistic and technical design of the form, material and production of manuscripts before printing. Its contents include folio design, cover design, layout design, binding form and binding materials. , including folio, cover, cover, spine, layout, ring lining, title page, illustration, insert, back cover, copyright page and envelope. Cover design generally consists of two parts: text and pictures. The binding form of books is related to the arrangement. Most of the books in our country are horizontally arranged, and the binding forms are hardcover, paperback, singles, bound volumes, popular volumes, reduced volumes, pocket edition, special collections, deluxe volumes and so on. In addition, there are mounting methods such as floating mouth, rounded corners, corner wrapping, label checking and burr, and the spine of the book is different from the square spine.