Look at them Tree Sheep!

I may have mentioned in earlier posts some of the newfound old terms I'm racking up interning at Jefferson Library. Do you rebind your old volumes in half red morocco? Do you dream at night of electric tree sheep? Do you fold your own folios? While reading up on some of this stuff online, I ran across two particularly helpful resources. The first - dbnl - was linked from Wikipedia's entry about book size (also a good read) and illustrates impositions and folding schemes of several sizes of books: folios, quartos, octavos, etc. 'Imposition' refers to the layout/arrangement of the pages in the form. It helped clarify visually (and simply) how these pages were folded, and then would be stacked together in signatures and bound as books. It's really cool! How about fold-your-own-quartos for craft day? Another helpful resource I ran across is the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of ACRL. They offer thesauri for rare book and special collections cataloging, including: binding terms, genre terms, paper terms, printing & publishing evidence, provenance evidence, and type evidence. I located some other basic vocabulary lists to help define terms as I run across them. I'm still not sure about the etymology of 'tree' in the description of tree sheep binding.