Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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gold-powdered bindings

Leather bookbindings produced during the period of about 1560 to 1570, and usually tooled with a simple design and then given a "powdered" effect by means of miniscule gold dots and (sometimes) gold leaf rubbed into the leather. (347 )




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