Creator
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons.
Title
Watchmen.
Coverage
New York:
Publisher
DC Comics Inc.,
Date
1987.
Subject
Gift of Paul Romaine.
Description
The outer right-hand corner of one of the leaves of the mass-market paperback edition of the 1987 graphic novel Watchmen features a témoin (French for “witness”)—an accidentally folded corner of a bookblock leaf that survives uncut and untrimmed. Here the témoin shows the extent to which the bound leaves were trimmed during the manufacturing process—thus helping to indicate the leaf’s original size.
Source
From the collection of Rare Book School