The structure of ancient books in collection

The structure of Bao Beizhuang and thread-bound ancient books is roughly the same, that is, each printed page is folded in half at the center of the edition, literally facing outwards, and bound into a book. Each ancient book has a fixed name inside and outside. Mainly: instruction clothing is the cover and back cover of books, also known as book cover and text. There are two kinds of book clothes: cloth and paper. The most common is made of chestnut tassel paper and cyan historical paper. Cloth and cotton silk are mostly used in rare books of ancient books. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Forbidden City books were often dressed in yellow silk to show their dignity. The book cover is usually engraved with the title, or written directly on the cover, or bookmarked. Bookmarks are rectangular strips of paper used to write the titles of ancient books, which are usually attached to the upper left corner of the cover of ancient books. One side of the book is a thread-bound book. The side of a spine-mounted book is equivalent to the back of a modern book. The top of ancient books is also called the head of a book. The lower end of ancient books. It is often used to inscribe the title and the number of volumes, and near the spine of the book, it is also often used to mark the number of albums. The last volume is often used as a variant of the word stop, such as, and so on. The title page is the cover of ancient books, which is specially used to write the book name, usually placed behind the book coat and the title page. Most of them use half a page (half a page of a book) to write the book name and author, and some use half a page to write the book name, engraving time, engraving institution or printing place. The title page is a blank page after the page and before the title page. The above is the appearance of ancient books. As for the content of an ancient book, it is often composed of preface, table of contents, examples, text, postscript and other parts. It is very important to read the preface and postscript and check the text and taboo words to identify the versions of ancient books. In addition, ancient books are often engraved with a card (also called a book card) at the end of the volume or after the preface in the volume, indicating the name of the publishing house, the name of the bookstore, the year of engraving, and so on. This is also an important basis for version identification.