vellum
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A very beautiful book, printed upon white and delicate VELLUM.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
This is doubtless a fine copy--upon thick, but soft and white, VELLUM.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
Secund�, Schoeffher, 1467, folio--UPON VELLUM, in the Imperial Library at Vienna, iii 316 ----, Opus Quartiscript.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
We have here a most desirable copy--UPON VELLUM, which is equally soft and white.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
But a clean copy of the "Hypnerotomachia," especially on VELLUM, is one of the jewels of bibliography.
From The Library by Lang, Andrew
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