Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
black lead
Commercial powdered graphite, which, when mixed with water, glair, and (sometimes) Armenian bole, is applied to the edges of books before gilding. See also:
GILT EDGES
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