<div dir="ltr">I agree with Deborah that what you describe sounds more like a matter of printing than binding. As I understand it, tête-bêche <i>binding</i> involves binding separate, normally oriented texts together head-to-tail. The first text would read normally on both rectos and versos, and the volume is flipped vertically to read the other text. Dos-à-dos (Binding) involves binding the separate texts back to back with spines on the opposite sides of the volume, which needs to be flipped horizontally. The two texts may be related but they don't share pages.<br><div><br></div><div>I find the term tête-bêche also used in philately to describe the <i>printing</i> of adjacent unseparated postage stamps oriented head-to-tail, whether intentionally or not. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AAte-b%C3%AAche">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AAte-b%C3%AAche</a><br><br>The closest thing I could find in the RBMS vocabularies was "Inverted blocks (Printing)" but this appears to refer to a type of page make-up error, not an intentional printing phenomenon.<br><br></div><div>I find reference to head-to-tail printing, referring to pages printed oriented as for a legal document bound along the top edge, to be read in a single direct sequence by flipping pages upward. This is also different from the opposing interleaved sequences described by Amber, but in both cases it involves printing rectos and versos in opposite orientations.<br></div><div><br>As tete-beche is not found in the RBMS thesaurus at all, maybe this warrants two CV proposals for new terms along the lines of Tête-bêche (Binding) and Tête-bêche (Printing)?<br><br></div><div></div><div>Matt</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Deborah J. Leslie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DJLeslie@folger.edu" target="_blank">DJLeslie@folger.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1f497d">You know, I don't think it is. Both dos-à-dos and tête-bêche are binding structures that contain two books together in opposite directions. But what it sounds like Billey is describing
is a complete interleaving of the two books, and therefore a printing condition. Yes? A single opening will show an upside-down page on the verso and a right-side-up page on the recto.
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Amber Billey<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 01 June, 2017 18:52<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It is a <span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Tête-bêche! Thank you! </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:44 PM Robert Maxwell <<a href="mailto:robert_maxwell@byu.edu" target="_blank">robert_maxwell@byu.edu</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Amber Billey<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, June 1, 2017 2:49 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a><br>
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