Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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gold marble

A type of cover marble produced by breaking gold leaf into fragments on a piece of cloth, and rubbing the gold through the cloth onto the glaired covers of the book. (152 , 241 )






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