Book folding

Book folding is the stage of the book production process in which the pages of the book are folded after printing and before binding.^[1]

Until the middle of the 19th century, book folding was done by hand, and was a trade. In the 1880s and 1890s, book folding machines by Brown and Dexter came onto the market, and by the 1910s hand-folding was rare, with one publisher declaring them to be "practically obsolete" in 1914.^[1]

The folding process is also necessary to produce print products other than books—for instance mailings, magazines, leaflets etc.

^ ^a ^b Patricia Lockhart Fleming (2004). "The Binding Trades". In Patricia Lockhart Fleming and Yvan Lamonde (ed.). History of the Book in Canada. Vol. 2: 1840–1918. University of Toronto Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-8020-8012-7.

[Fleming-1] Patricia Lockhart Fleming (2004). "The Binding Trades". In Patricia Lockhart Fleming and Yvan Lamonde (ed.). History of the Book in Canada. Vol. 2: 1840–1918. University of Toronto Press. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-8020-8012-7.

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