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Glossary of Rare Book Terms

What is a rare book? What is signed versus inscribed? What is a first edition? What does 8vo stand for?
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Yapp, Yapp Edges

Yapp, so called after the London bookseller who invented it about 1860, is a style of binding with overlapping edges or flaps on all three edges. Hence, yapp edges, meaning the flaps.

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