[DCRM-L] term for type of printing

[Matthew C. Haugen]

I agree with Deborah that what you describe sounds more like a matter of
printing than binding. As I understand it, tête-bêche *binding* 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.

I find the term tête-bêche also used in philately to describe the *printing*
of adjacent unseparated postage stamps oriented head-to-tail, whether
intentionally or not. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%AAte-b%C3%AAche

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.

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.

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)?

Matt

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Deborah J. Leslie <DJLeslie at folger.edu>
wrote:

> 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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> *From:* dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Amber Billey
> *Sent:* Thursday, 01 June, 2017 18:52
> *To:* DCRM Users' Group
> *Subject:* Re: [DCRM-L] term for type of printing
>
>
>
> It is a Tête-bêche! Thank you!
>
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>
> On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 6:44 PM Robert Maxwell <robert_maxwell at byu.edu>
> wrote:
>
> This sounds like a Dos-à-dos binding or Tête-bêche:
>
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dos-%C3%A0-dos_binding
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> http://rbms.info/vocabularies/binding/tr428.htm
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> Robert L. Maxwell
> Ancient Languages and Special Collections Librarian
> 6728 Harold B. Lee Library
> Brigham Young University
> Provo, UT 84602
> (801)422-5568 <(801)%20422-5568>
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>
>
> *From:* dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Amber Billey
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 1, 2017 2:49 PM
> *To:* dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
> *Subject:* [DCRM-L] term for type of printing
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know what you call a book that has the printing of one story
> running through the recto pages, but then when you flip it over and
> upside-down another story is printed on the verso pages?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Amber Billey
>
>


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