The body of a book, consisting of the leaves, or sections, making up the unit to be bound, rebound, or restored. It excludes all papers added by the bookbinder, including board papers, endpapers, doublures, etc.
- French:Le corps d’ouvrage
- Latin:Folia
Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington, Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books (Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1982), 262.