Editing Book (section)

=== Design ===
{{Main|Book design}}

Book design is the art of incorporating the content, style, format, design, and sequence of the various elements of a book into a coherent unit.<ref>{{cite book|last=Lee|first=Marshall |title=Bookmaking: Editing, Design, Production|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OejMV-cELwUC|edition=3rd|year=2004|publisher=W. W. Norton and Company|location=New York|isbn=978-0-393-73018-0}}</ref>

==== Layout ====
{{See also|Page layout}}
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[[File:Bookinfo.svg|thumb|350px|Diagram of a book
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Modern books are organized according to a particular format called the book's ''layout''. Although there is great variation in layout, modern books tend to adhere to a set of rules with regard to what the parts of the layout are and what their content usually includes. A basic layout will include a ''front cover'', a ''back cover'' and the book's content which is called its ''body copy'' or ''content pages''. The front cover often bears the book's title (and subtitle, if any) and the name of its author or editor(s). The ''inside front cover'' page is usually left blank in both hardcover and paperback books. The next section, if present, is the book's ''front matter'', which includes all textual material after the front cover but not part of the book's content such as a foreword, a dedication, a table of contents and publisher data such as the book's edition or printing number and place of publication. Between the body copy and the back cover goes the ''end matter'' which would include any indices, sets of tables, diagrams, glossaries or lists of cited works (though an edited book with several authors usually places cited works at the end of each authored chapter). The ''inside back cover'' page, like that inside the front cover, is usually blank. The ''back cover'' is the usual place for the book's [[ISBN]] and maybe a photograph of the author(s)/ editor(s), perhaps with a short introduction to them. Also here often appear plot summaries, barcodes and excerpted reviews of the book.<ref name="ShellyStarks2011">{{cite book |author1=Gary B. Shelly |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PSQJAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA559 |title=Microsoft Publisher 2010: Comprehensive |author2=Joy L. Starks |date=2011 |publisher=Cengage Learning |isbn=978-1-133-17147-8 |page=559 |access-date=December 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191221193213/https://books.google.com/books?id=PSQJAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA559 |archive-date=December 21, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The body of the books is usually divided into parts, chapters, sections and sometimes subsections that are composed of at least a paragraph or more.

==== Size ====
{{Main|Book size}}
The size of a book is generally measured by the height against the width of a leaf, or sometimes the height and width of its cover.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Matt |title=Bookbinding and the conservation of books: a dictionary of descriptive terminology |last2=Etherington |first2=Don |date=1982 |publisher=Library of Congress |others=Library of Congress |isbn=978-0-8444-0366-3 |location=Washington, D.C.}}</ref> A series of terms commonly used by contemporary libraries and publishers for the general sizes of modern books ranges from ''[[folio]]'' (the largest), to ''[[quarto]]'' (smaller) and ''[[octavo]]'' (still smaller). Historically, these terms referred to the format of the book, a technical term used by printers and bibliographers to indicate the size of a leaf in terms of the size of the original sheet. For example, a quarto was a book printed on sheets of paper folded in half twice, with the first fold at right angles to the second, to produce 4 leaves (or 8 pages), each leaf one fourth the size of the original sheet printed – note that a ''leaf'' refers to the single piece of paper, whereas a ''page'' is one side of a leaf. Because the actual format of many modern books cannot be determined from examination of the books, bibliographers may not use these terms in scholarly descriptions.

==== Illustration ====
{{Main|Book illustration}}
[[File:Randolph Caldecott illustration2.jpg|thumb|alt=illustration of crowing rooster facing the rising sun with a man, dressed in nightcap and sleeping gown, leaning out the window. Background shows two small figures walking along a fenced road.|Illustration from "[[This Is the House That Jack Built|The House that Jack Built]]" in ''The Complete Collection of Pictures & Songs''; engraving and printing by [[Edmund Evans]], illustration by [[Randolph Caldecott]] (1887)]]
While some form of book illustration has existed since the invention of writing, the modern Western tradition of illustration began with 15th-century [[block book]]s, in which the book's text and images were cut into the same block.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Russell |first=Chris |date=2016-01-14 |title=A Brief History of Book Illustration |url=https://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of-book-illustration/ |access-date=2024-08-28 |website=Literary Hub |language=en-US}}</ref> Techniques such as [[engraving]], [[etching]], and [[lithography]] have also been influential.