Special 3-leaf end sheets are used for the quarter-joint adhesive binding, and we will take a leaf-by-leaf look at one. We will proceed just as turning the pages of a book, beginning from the usual* "front cover up" orientation. As shown here, this endsheet is the one that will go at the front of the book. What is showing here is the side of the first leaf that will be glued to the inner surface of the board. This leaf and the second one will be glued together to form a double-thickness paste-down. The approximately ¾" wide white strip on the left is hinge cloth. It wraps around to the back side of the end sheet, where it overlaps by only about ¼".

* All bearings given are those which apply to Western books; the orientation of some Eastern books is the reverse.