Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
pelt
A contradictory term defined both as the skin of an animal with the hair, wool or fur still on, and specifically in the leather trade, as a hide or skin prepared for tanning by the removal of the hair or wool, epidermis, and flesh. (
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