Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
gold sprinkle
A 19th century technique of decorating the edges of a book in which pulverized gold leaf is sprinkled on the edges after they have been colored. See also:
SPRINKLED EDGES
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