Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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fine red

A marbling color used before the introduction of synthetic dyestuffs, and prepared by boiling Brazil dust, nutgalls, alum, sal ammoniac (ammonium chloride) and hydrochloric acid in water, or by dissolving Brazil wood in hydrochloric acid. (97 )




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