blind stamping

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blind stamping

n
(Printing, Lithography & Bookbinding) bookbinding an impression on a book cover without using colour or gold leaf. Also called: blind blocking
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(Unlike most book clubs, RSS offered original trade editions without modification with regard to size, paper, and dust-jacket quality, omission of the original retail price on the inside dust-jacket flap, and blind stamping on the back boards.) Regrettably, as far as we have been able to ascertain, the RSS is no longer in business.
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The blue English morocco is the river and the sinuous S-shaped fishing line is a minimalist blind stamping which ends with a hand-tied fishing fly perched on a gilt salmon skin inlay!
Pierre Ouvrard: master bookbinder/maitre relieur
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