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Gilded Marbled Treasures of Bookbinding
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- 1. Luxurious goatskin leather famed in 18th-century deluxe covers
- 2. Intricate tool used for decorative leaf-like motifs on fine bindings
- 3. Obscure practice of using feathers pressed into leather for texture
- 8. French term for a book cover with a leather-inlaid geometric design
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- 4. Flexible parchment cover style, eschewing rigid boards for mobility
- 5. A dazzling ornamental style with gilt tooling and jewel embellishments
- 6. Fine cloth used for delicate bindings in the Regency period
- 7. Technique of blind embossing patterns upon book leather surfaces
- 9. Small punched hole decoration often found along spine bindings
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