A gutter is the section of the page that leads into the binding of perfect bound books and hard cover books.
Parts of a book gutter.
External parts of a book dust jacket example.
This process will cause a curve of the pages coming from the spine when the book is open.
The gutter as a printers term carter went on to note that printers define the gutter slightly differently.
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So the gutter is generally thought of as a necessary evil an inconvenience or simply the least interesting part of a book.
The inside cover of a paperback is the literal back of the cover.
A special band at the top of the spine that hides the glue and helps keep the spine together.
In an open book recto is the page on the right side.
It wasn t until after world war i when booksellers and publishers realised the.
Anything within the gutter typically isn t visible.
It is intentionally left blank.
The left and right pages when the book is open meet in the gutter.
The space on the inside margin of pages where the book is bound.
The gutter is a term used to describe the seam of the book where the book is bound.
These two products have binding types that are clamped and held together with glue.
To printers the gutter refers to the wider space left in the forme between the fore edges of two abutting pages.
Illustrators must be conscious of the gutter when designing their art especially artwork that extends over both the left and right pages so that detail doesn t disappear within the seam of the pages when the book is bound.