• biography

    account of a person’s life or a collection containing the description of several lives
  • blank

    deliberately planned as a blank page without content but included in the page count
  • blind embossing

    a book cover decorated using stamps, burnishers, blocks etc., and without using ink or leaf metal
  • blind text

    meaningless text to enable the checking of the visual appearance when designing layouts
  • block 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 press
  • block letters

    a script suitable for printing (as opposed to handwriting)
  • blockbuster

    a term in television and cinema for a hugely successful production
  • blog

    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 England
  • blurb

    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