Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology
tortoise shell
A cover sprinkle executed by washing the leather with yellow dye and, when dry, sprinkling heavily with black. When this is dry the cover is then spotted with blue, red and black. (
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