Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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faced cloth

A cloth that is finished (coated and glazed) on one side only. As only one side of the cloth used in covering books is visible when on the book, most book cloths are "faced," in distinction to those in which the cloths are finished on both sides. (261 )




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