Can also refer to the outer indentation that is created by the joining of the boards and spine.
Book terms gutter.
Adjacent inner margins of facing pages when book is open.
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For obvious reasons the gutter must always be wide enough to permit the innermost text to be read easily when the book is bound.
The area where the inside margins of adjoining pages of a book meet is called the gutter.
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This in contrast to a book quarter bound which has a spine covered in one material and the boards covered in another.
A gutter is the section of the page that leads into the binding of perfect bound books and hard cover books.
Gutter inner margins of two facing pages.
This process will cause a curve of the pages coming from the spine when the book is open.
These two products have binding types that are clamped and held together with glue.
Half binding a book which has had its spine and corners covered in one material such as cloth or leather and the rest of the front and rear covers covered in another such as boards paper or cloth.
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