A section — sometimes also called a gathering or signature — is a group of sheets which are folded in half and inserted inside each other to then become the pages of a book. Books with many pages will have several sections, but these notebooks here only have one section, each made up from 20 folded sheets. This makes them simpler books to bind, as a few steps are left out which I would have to do if they had more pages.
Bibliography
- Cockerell, Douglas. 1901. Bookbinding: The Classic Arts and Crafts Manual. Mineola, N.Y: Dover Publications, 2008.
- Woolnough, Charles W. 1881. The whole art of marbling as applied to paper, bookedges, etc.: containing a full description of the nature and properties of the materials used, the method of preparing them, and of executing every kind of marbling in use at the present time, with numerous illustrations and examples. Fredericksburg, VA: Six Penny Graphics, 2019.