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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;McAdder, post: 4840643, member: 7942&quot;]I have never heard of someone opening a book Page per page. But roughly before 1870 few books where sold with a bindung by the printer, most only with a thin paper cover to protect it from dust. In the early Times mostly plain blue, later with title etc like here. later when the book was bound to the taste of the new owner or the bookseller, it was cut open with a paper cutter, cutting all pages to the same size. </p><p>I found this German wiki article explaining the concept&nbsp; <a href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interimseinband" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interimseinband" rel="nofollow">https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interimseinband</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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