1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / G / Guarded. [p. 55]
Books are said to be “guarded” when the plates are mounted or sewn on guards instead of being stitched or pasted in the ordinary way.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.