Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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bark tanned

A general term used to indicate a leather that has been vegetable tanned mainly by means of tannins derived from the bark of trees as distinguished from mixed tannages. See also: VEGETABLE TANNINS .






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