Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In bookbinding, one of the white or blank leaves usually put before and after the text of a book in binding, one or more in each place.
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Examples
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I found out about Dunnett only because I chanced across an end-paper essay in the NYT Book Review, the thesis of which was that she was among the greatest authors that almost no one has read.
Archive 2006-12-01 Bruce Schauble 2006
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I found out about Dunnett only because I chanced across an end-paper essay in the NYT Book Review, the thesis of which was that she was among the greatest authors that almost no one has read.
On Reading Bruce Schauble 2006
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Separating Williams 'and Trelawny's entries is a blank page 116, and the back end-paper has been numbered (MS 259).
Notes 2002
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The back end-paper and the front flyleaf are both paginated, as are loose pages that do not properly belong to the manuscript; several loose leaves belonging to the seventh quire were paginated out of their proper order.
Introduction 2002
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The front pastedown end-paper of the notebook bears the stamp of an early nineteenth-century bookseller and exporter,
Introduction 2002
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The end-paper map is from a drawing made for the book by Lincoln A. Lang.
Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Hermann Hagedorn 1923
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Note: Cover and some end-paper illustrations were taken from Edition in Special Collections at UVa since the edition from Berkeley does not have the original cover-boards.
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Times Book Review had an end-paper essay called "How to Speak a Book," in which he reports on using speech recognition software to do his "writing": "I write these words from bed, under the covers with my knees up, my head propped and my three-pound tablet PC — just a shade heavier than a hardcover — resting in my lap, almost forgettable.
On Slowness Bruce Schauble 2007
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