plate

In the book trade, a tipped-in page or tipped-in plate is a page that is printed separately from the main text of the book, but attached to the book. The page may be glued onto a regular page or even bound along with the other pages. There are various reasons for tipped-in-pages, including photographic prints and reviews. Description A tipped-in page or, if it is an illustration, tipped-in plate, is a page that is printed separately from the main text of the book, but attached to the book. A tipped-in page may be glued onto a regular page, or even bound along with the other pages. It is often printed on a different kind of paper, using a different printing process, and of a different format than a regular page. Tipped-in pages that are glued to a bound page on its inner side may be called paste ins. Some authors include loose pages inserted into a book as tipped-in, but in this case, it is usually called an insert instead. Semi-transparent papers called tissue guards were sometimes inserted facing the plate image, to protect the plate, and prevent its ink from transferring onto the opposite page.