Pressing plates. Thin plates of metal, japanned or nickeled, used to give a finish or polish to the leather on a book by placing them next to the leather and then subjecting book and plates to heavy pressure.
Publishers’ bindings. See Case bindings.
Quarto. When a sheet is folded into four leaves, the size of the folded piece being about 11 × 8½ inches; usually written, 4to.
Quire. Twenty-four sheets. When the sheets of a pamphlet are folded and set into each other in one section, they are quired.
Recto. The right page; verso is the left page.
Red edges. See Edges red.
Register. When the print on one side of a leaf falls exactly over that on the other it is said to register. Also, a ribbon placed in a book as a marker.
Renaissance ornaments. See Derome style.
Roan. Leather made of sheepskin and not split. See Sheepskin.
Rolled edges. See Edges rolled.