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gouges
Note (en)
Note
Single-line finishing tools with a curved edge that forms a segment of a circle, used either for blind or metal-leaf tooling on the covers but not the spine of a book.
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Source
Etherington & Roberts (1982)
Roberts, Matt, Don Etherington, and Margaret R. Brown. 1982. Bookbinding and the conservation of books: a dictionary of descriptive terminology. Washington: Library of Congress.
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