smooth calf
A smooth, uncolored calfskin, used rather
extensively in the latter years of the 19th and
early part of the 20th centuries for covering
books when the binding was to be marbled, or
sprinkled, or just left plain. See also: SMOOTH CALF BINDING ;
TREE CALF . (264 )
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