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block book
noun
A book printed from engraved wooden blocks instead of movable type.
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At Optimal, record companies must block book production as much as a year in advance, often before they know the details of what they will be releasing.
The family rented the entire Round Hill site for a fee of $50,000, paying thousands more to block book rooms for 130 guests.
Bid to Block Book Fails New York Supreme Court Judge James Yates rejected a bid by a cryonics foundation to stop the release of a book that describes the mistreatment of the severed head of the Hall of Famer Ted Williams at its Arizona facility.
Fan Brian Miles, who has already bought his ticket, told BBC Radio Wales: "We're a block book of 31 fans who sit together at the Liberty Stadium and we've decided we will replicate our atmosphere at Wembley.
It is likely to go down further still when the parties no longer have to block book poster sites for weeks on end in preparation for a likely poll.
Full disclosure: Nina and her husband, Dr. Harvey Karp of "The Happiest Baby on the Block" book and DVD series, were founding members of Healthy Child Healthy World and currently serve our Honorary Board.
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For example: Two important block books: First, theBiblia pauperum, made by the woodcutter Hans Sporer of Nuremberg.
Chapters include information on the cutting of the block, inking and printing, artists' monograms, xylography and block books, cutter's tools, and chiaroscuro prints.
"In the 60s, before the Lady Chatterley trial," says Ian Stringer, "you used to get block books – literally, wooden blocks in place of any books the librarians thought were a bit risqué, like Last Exit to Brooklyn.
Literacy, however, was limited by the lack of printed materials; until the 15th century (when typesetting developed), books were laboriously cut page by page on blocks (hence they were known as block books) and consequently were rare and expensive.
But there may be yet another segment of the App Store on the chopping block: Books.
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