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Gold Sprinkle for Books

Put with it touch the water on the cover in differinto a marble mortar 1/2 ounce pure honey and ent parts, which will have a fine effect when 1 book of gold leaf; rub them well together managed with care. Let it stand a few min . until they are very fine, add 1/2 pint of clear utes, then take off the water with a clean water, and mix them well together. When sponge. the water clears, pour it off, and put in more, 3111. Green Egyptian Marble for till the honey is all extracted, and nothing re- Leather Book-Covers. Color the cover mains but the gold. Mix 1 grain corrosive in a large vessel, as mentioned before, with sublimate in a tea-spoonful spirits of wine, Scott's liquid blue; when done, put it into a and when dissolved, put the same, together vessel of clear water for an hour. Take it out with a little gum water, to the gold, and bot- and press out the water, then cover the book. the book. tle it close for use. The edges of the book Glair the cover; when dry, place it between may be sprinkled or colored very dark, with wands, and drop weak potash water from a green, blue, or purple, and lastly with the sponge thereon; dip the quill -top into the gold liquid, in small or large spots, very regu- strong black, and touch the water with it. with it. lar, shaking the bottle before using. Burnish This must be repeated till you have a good the edges when dry, and cover them with black. When dry, clear it with a sponge and paper to prevent the dust falling thereon. water.

This sprinkle will have a most beautiful ap- 3112. Red Egyptian Marble for pearance on extra work; ladies may use it Leather Book-Covers. Boil Brazil dust in for ornamenting their fancy work, by putting it on with a pen or camel's hair brush, and when dry burnishing it with a dog's tooth. 3107. Marble for Leather Book- Covers. Wash the cover and glair it, take a sponge charged with water, having the book between wands, and drop the water from the sponge on the different parts of the cover; sprinkle very fine with vinegar black, then with brown, and lastly with vitriol water.

Observe to sprinkle on the colors immediately after each other, and to wash the cover over with a clean sponge and water. of rain-water on a slow fire, with a little powdered alum and a few drops of solution of tin, till a good color is produced. Dip a piece of calf leather into the liquid, and you may ascertain the color wanted. If too light, let it boil till it is reduced to one half of the quantity; take it from the fire, add a few more drops of the solution of tin, and pour it into a large vessel. Put the dry cover on the liquid, and let it remain for a quarter of an hour, then press out the water. Color it over with a sponge and the quercitron bark water, and cover the book. Glair the cover, place it between wands, dash on water with a brush, also potash water; and, lastly, finish it with the strong vinegar black, with the quill-top.

Observe that too much black is not put on;