Folding book
Type of book or pamphlet
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A folding book is a book or pamphlet typified by a continuous unbound paper sheet, folded as to form folios. A folding book folded in repeated parallel alternating folds, in the fashion of an accordion pleat, is further known as a concertina, accordion, or leporello.[1][2]
Construction
Leporello
The style of folding is similar to that of the air bellows of a concertina or the eponymous accordion, such that every written page faces another written page when the book is closed. It may therefore be opened to any page.[3] It may have a cover attached to the front and back end sections of the book, or holes in the back cover to allow the book to be "laced."[4] The name derives from a visual gag associated with a scene in Mozart's Don Giovanni, where Giovanni's servant Leporello produces a small book or paper with a list of his master's affairs, only to reveal that it is folded up and in fact is enormously long.[5]
Folding book manuscript
A folding-book manuscript is from one of many pre-modern hand-written folding book traditions.[6]
Modern examples
See also
- Accordion
- Concertina
- Don Giovanni, an opera featuring the eponymous Leporello
- Dog-ear
- Folded almanac
- Obi (publishing)
- Spadea