The margins of the pages have been trimmed (often too close to the text block).
cut off as by clipping or biting off; "trees with cropped tops"; "cropped hedges"; "her short cropped hair"; "the cropped grass where sheep had browsed"
A print that has been cut or trimmed down sometimes reaching into the engraved surface.
Hemmed shorter than the normal cut. For jackets and shirts, the crop is just above the waist; for pants, the crop is above the ankle.