Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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ternion

A gathering consisting of three sheets folded once and insetted. This was the form in which some manuscripts and early printed books, especially those of vellum, were assembled. with the first and sixth, second and fifth, etc., leaves being conjugate. See also: QUATERNION ;QUINTERNION ;SEXTERNION .

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