Containing a full description of leather and vellum binding; directions for gilding of paper and book-edges; and numerous valuable recipes for sprinkling, colouring, & marbling; together with a scale of bookbinders' charges; a list of all the book and vellum binders in London, &c. &c Seventh and new edition.

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