- account of a person’s life or a collection containing the description of several lives
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deliberately planned as a blank page without content but included in the page countblind embossing
a book cover decorated using stamps, burnishers, blocks etc., and without using ink or leaf metalblind text
meaningless text to enable the checking of the visual appearance when designing layoutsblock book
book with pages only printed on one side, often furnished with pictures, printed with woodblocks using a rubbing technique without the use of a printing pressblock letters
a script suitable for printing (as opposed to handwriting)blockbuster
a term in television and cinema for a hugely successful productionblog
a web diary written in public on the internet (“web log”)blue books
collections of documents in which matters of foreign policy of individual states are published in characteristic colours: blue being the colour of the first such publications in Englandblurb
the text on the dust jacket of a book that usually provides information on the contents and the author as well as other works by the same publisher