The application of gold leaf to the edges of the leaves of a book which have been trimmed, sized, primed with Armenian bole, covered with gold leaf and burnished.
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The application of gold leaf to the edges of the leaves of a book which have been trimmed, sized, primed with Armenian bole, covered with gold leaf and burnished.
The paring away of the edge of a piece of leather at an angle of 45 degrees. See also paring.
See case binding.
Paper, cloth or leather impressed with a pattern or false grain.
The sheets of paper (two or more) which come between the cover and the sewn sections. Part of the binding construction, they comprise, at their most basic, a board paper, also referred to as a pastedown (which is usually coloured and which serves to counteract the warp of the boards caused by the covering material) and a free fly leaf, which protects the first or last pages of text.
In the production of paper, the addition of resin size to the pulp at the mixer stage, before it is made into paper.
