Watchmen.

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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