Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
burnishing brushes
A black lead or shoe brush, having stiff but not harsh bristles, and used, after coating the edges of a book with black lead, to burnish the edges before glairing for edge-gilding. (
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