Bible paper

Bible paper

Bible paper is a thin grade of paper used for printing books which have a large number of pages, such as Bibles, encyclopedias and dictionaries. It often has a relatively high proportion of cotton or linen fibres, which increase its strength despite its thinness.

References

*" [http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/don/dt/dt0283.html Bible paper] " in Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington, "Bookbinding and the Conservation of books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology".


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