Hollow back

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Hollow back binding. Image from page 43 of "Report of the Committee on leather for bookbinding" (1905). Via Flickr Commons. No known copyright restrictions. https://flic.kr/p/oepT8E

English

noun

Synonyms

• false back binding

Related terms

• Oxford hollow
• tight back (antonym)

Translations for "hollow back"

• English: hollow back<ref name="Kuhn">Kuhn, Hilde. Wörterbuch Der Handbuchbinderei Und Der Restaurierung: Von Einbänden, Papyri, Handschriften, Graphiken, Autographen, Urkunden Und Globen in Deutscher, Englischer, Französischer Und Italienischer Sprache. Stuttgart: Hettler, 1969. Print.</ref>

• Danish: (translation needed)

• Dutch: (translation needed)

• French: faux dos<ref name="Kuhn" />, dos brisé<ref name="Kuhn" />, dos creux

• German: Hohlrücken<ref name="Kuhn" />

• Italian: dorso staccato<ref name="Kuhn" />

• Latin: (translation needed)

• Spanish: (translation needed)

• Swedish: Lösrygg

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