Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books
A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology

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blacks

1. An obsolete term for a grade of book cloth of a "common" quality, dyed throughout. 2. A general term applied to black papers used for covers, photograph albums, and the like. (256 )




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