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The gutter is the inside margin of a printed book. It is called the gutter because books do not lay flat when they are opened: the pages have to bend out from the spine. This creates a "gutter" where the two pages join.

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Your complete piece of work – be it a novel, short story, or article, etc. – will be referred to as your manuscript. Commonly abbreviated to "ms" (singular) or "mss" (plural).

"Recto" and "verso" are the publishing terms for right and left-hand pages in a printed book.

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An unsolicited mss is a manuscript which has not been requested. Many agents and publishers will not accept unsolicited mss, but this does not necessarily mean they are closed to approaches – many will prefer to receive a short query in the firs...

A frontispiece is an illustration on the reverse of the half title page in the prelims of a book, facing the title page.

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