Thumb index

A dictionary with thumb indexes (on the right).

A thumb index, also called a cut-in index,^[1] is a round cut-out in the pages of dictionaries, encyclopedias, or other sectioned, often alphabetic, reference works like Bibles, used to locate entries starting at a particular letter or section. The individual notches are called thumb cuts.

References

↑ "thumb index". Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books: A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation. Retrieved 8 May 2012.

Book design

General page layout and typography choices	Fonts

Front and back covers	Buckram Leather Anthropodermic bibliopegy Treasure binding

Endpapers	Marbled

Front matter	Half title or bastard title Frontispiece Title page Edition notice Dedication Epigraph Table of contents List of figures List of tables Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Prologue Printer's mark

Body matter, which may include:	Body text Chapters Parts Tipped-in pages

Back matter	Afterword Conclusion Epilogue Outro Postscript Appendix/Addendum Glossary Bibliography Index Errata Colophon Postface

Other elements	Catchword Die cutting Fore-edge painting Pop-ups Thumb index

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