Modern ornamentation is confined to tooling, blind and gilt, and Inlaying.
"The Booklover and His Books"
Harry Lyman Koopman
The next step in the direction of ornament is gilding, the next Inlaying.
"The Booklover and His Books"
Harry Lyman Koopman
This condition is so strongly felt that many booklovers leave their bindings untooled, preferring the rich sensuous beauty and depth of color in a choice piece of leather to any effect of gilding or Inlaying.
"The Booklover and His Books"
Harry Lyman Koopman