Two Early Nineteenth-century Bookbinding Manuals |
Common terms and phrases
8vos Aldersgate street alum aqua regia back-board bands binder Black the cover Blackfriars boil book between wands BOOKBINDERS bottle brazil dust brush cheeks Clare Market Clerkenwell Colour the cover copperas water court cutting press Demy Medium edge fillet flat folded folios fore-edge forrel French berries gently gilding glaire glue gold groove hammer Hatton Garden head and tail head-bands Holborn inch intended ketch-stitch knife lane leaf leather left hand liquid blue lours marble Morocco Newgate street ounce of Brazil paper pared paste-board pasted perfectly dry piece place the book plough polished Prussian blue purple put the book quarto quills ready roll rough calf round rubbed RUSSIA BANDS screwed tight Sevenpenny Eightpenny sewing sewn sheets side Sixpenny Sevenpenny slips smooth Soho spirits of wine sponge and water sprinkle square Strand strong potash water thread thumb turmeric vellum vinegar vitriol water wash the cover