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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In bookbinding, an effect produced by various instruments upon the leather without the assistance of gold-leaf.
Wiktionary
- n. A bookbinding technique in which decorations to the cover of a book are made by making impressions into the surface with a variety of heated tools.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also
blank tooling , andblind blocking .
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“The course teaches students to bind and repair nineteenth- and twentieth-century books, construct protective boxes, perform simple conservation procedures, bind books in leather, and do blind tooling and gold lettering.”
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Rare Books
Words used in the rare book trade (of which I was once a part). For more about how such books are put together, see hernesheir's excellent The Bindery.
foxing, gilt, headband, bumped, endpaper, leaf, colophon, vellum, laid paper, boards, device, engraving and 168 more...
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reesetee A method of decorating a book in which impressions are made in the covering material (usually leather) using heated tools, pallets, rolls, fillets, or combinations of one or more of these. As the name implies, blind tooling doesn't entail the use of leaf metal, foil, or other coloring materials, although carbon is sometimes used to darken the impressions. Nov 6, 2007