The common structural parts of a book include:
Flyleaf: The blank leaf or leaves following the front free endpaper.
Flyleaf: The blank leaf or leaves (if any) preceding the back free endpaper.
The most common book sizes are:
DuoDecimo (12mo): a size between 8vo and 16mo, up to 7 ¾" (ca 18 cm) tall
24mo: up to 5 ¾" (ca 13 cm) tall.
32mo: up to 5" (ca 12 cm) tall.
48mo: up to 4" (ca 10 cm) tall.
64mo: up to 3" (ca 8 cm) tall.
Small books can be called booklets.
Folio: up to 15" (ca 38 cm) tall.
Elephant Folio: up to 23" (ca 58 cm) tall.
Atlas Folio: up to 25" (ca 63 cm) tall.
Double Elephant Folio: up to 50" (ca 127 cm) tall.
Types of books according to their contents
Types of books according to their binding or cover
Egyptian papyrus showing the god Osiris and the weighing of the heart.
Burgundian author and scribe Jean Miélot, from his Miracles de Notre Dame), 15th century.
Calligraphers, who dealt in fine book production
Copyists, who dealt with basic production and correspondence
Illuminators, who painted illustrations
Rubricators, who painted in the red letters
Desk with chained books in the Library of Cesena, Italy.
The intricate frontispiece of the Diamond Sutra from Tang Dynasty
Book manufacturing in the modern world
The Librarian, by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1566), oil on canvas, at
Celsus Library was built in 135 A.D. and could house around 12,000 scrolls.
Identification and classification
Books on library shelves with bookends, and call numbers visible on the spines
Bliss bibliographic classification (BC)
Chinese Library Classification (CLC)
Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC)
Harvard-Yenching Classification
Library of Congress Classification (LCC)
Universal Decimal Classification (UDC)