Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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spew

Material that exudes or is exuded. In the manufacture of leather, it is seen as a portion of the oily constituents of a leather that appears on the grain surface in the form of white crystalline fatty acids, or as a gummy deposit in the form of dark oxidized fatty acids. (325 )




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