endpaper

nounC1Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: endpapers

An endpaper is the sheet pasted inside a book's cover. Decorated endpapers, the endpaper is torn, marbled endpapers.

Half of it is glued to the board and half forms the first free leaf, and it is what actually holds the book block to its case. Marbled ones are the traditional decoration and are worth looking at in any old book.

Definitions of endpaper

1nounendpaperThe sheet pasted inside a book's cover.C1
“Inside the front cover, the endpaper was printed with a map of the island.”

endpaper is a sheet.

Where it comes from

End plus paper, from the sheets at each end of a bound book.

From end + paper.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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endpaper in the wild

Thus, the front endpapers precede the title page and the text, whereas the back endpapers follow the text.
Endpaper
Booksellers sometimes refer to the front endpaper as FEP.
Endpaper
Most books have a grey dustjacket and endpaper using a contemporaneous design, with a matching bookmark.
Persephone Books
Phalen and endpaper maps of the Witch World by Barbi Johnson.
Spell of the Witch World
The dustjacket states that it is "adapted" from a drawing by Welch, but the overall design is not his; nor are the endpaper illustrations.
A Last Sheaf

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