Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
coffee
The common beverage obtained from the plant, genus Coffea, and used by some restorers to tint the leaves of books that have been washed and/or bleached, so as to tone them to the shade of those leaves that were not treated. (
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