3105. Brown Color for Marbling or Sprinkling Books

3105.    Brown Color for Marbling or Sprinkling Books. Logwood chips, 1 part; annotto, 1 part; boil in water, 6 parts. If too light, add a piece of copperas about the size of a pea. Or: Umber, any quantity. Grind it on a slab with ox-gall and a little lampblack. Dilute with ale.

3106. Gold Sprinkle for Books

3106.    Gold Sprinkle for Books. Put into a marble mortar 1/2 ounce pure honey and 1 book of gold leaf; rub them well together until they are very fine, add 1/2 pint of clear water, and mix them well together. "When the water clears, pour it off, and put in more, till the honey is all extracted, and nothing remains but the gold. Mix 1 grain corrosive sublimate in a tea-spoonful spirits of wine, and when dissolved, put the same, together with a little gum water, to the gold, and bottle it close for use. The edges of the book may be sprinkled or colored very dark, with green, blue, or purple, and lastly with the gold liquid, in small or large spots, very regular, shaking the bottle before using. Burnish the edges when dry, and cover them with paper to prevent the dust falling thereon. This sprinkle will have a most beautiful appearance on extra work; ladies may use it 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

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.

3108. Chinese Edge for Books

3108.      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 liquid blue. Color light blue on different parts of the edge with a sponge: do the same where there are vacancies with yellow and Brazil red; dry and dab on a little vermilion in spots; then throw on rice, and finish with a bold sprinkle of dark blue. Burnish.

3109. "Wax Marble for Leather Book-Covers, etc.

3109.      "Wax Marble for Leather Book-Covers, etc.. This marbling must be done on the fore edge, before the back of the book is rounded, or becomes round, when in boards, and finished on the head and foot. Take bees' wax and dissolve it over the fire in an earthen vessel; take quills stripped of their feathers, and tie them together; dip the quill-tops in the wax, and spot the edge, with 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.