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Chinese Edge for Books

Color the edge with light liquid blue and dry; then take a sponge charged with vermilion, and dab on spots according to fancy; next throw on rice, and finish the edge with dark the intention of the marble is to show the red liquid blue. Color light blue on different as transparently as possible. parts of the edge with a sponge; do the same

3113. Green Marble for Leather where there are vacancies with yellow and Book-Covers. The edge must be marbled Brazil red; dry and dab on a little vermilion with a good bright green only. When the in spots; then throw on rice, and finish with color is prepared with the ox-gall, and ready a bold sprinkle of dark blue. Burnish. 3109. Wax Marble for Leather Book-Covers, &c. This marbling must be done on the fore edge, before the back of the book is rounded, or becomes round, when in for use, a few drops of sweet oil must be mixed therein, the color thrown on with a brush, in large spots, till the gum is perfectly covered. The oil will make a light edge round each spot, and have a good effect. boards, and finished on the head and foot. Blue, green, and brown may be also used sep- Take bees' wax and dissolve it over the fire in arately in like manner. Sheets of paper may an earthen vessel; take quills stripped of be done, having a trough large enough, and their feathers, and tie them together; dip the the sheets damped as for printing, before quill-tops in the wax, and spot the edge, with marbling. Spirits of turpentine may be large and small spots; take a sponge charged with blue, green, or red, and smear over the edge: when done, dash off the wax, and it will be marbled. This will be useful for stationery work, or for folios and quartos. sprinkled on the colors, which will make white spots.