Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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symmetrical design

A decorative design for a book built up by means of repeating tools at regular intervals—as in a diaper design, for example—or by drawing some symmetrical form and repeating small tools in conjunction with this form, in order to carry out a decorative scheme. (115 )




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