Word: vellum
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...crazy with suggestions. He urged them to use gold type. He sent them a huge diagram illustrating the "correct" way to wrap and tie parcels. He liked his books to appear in different formats-50 copies in a red binding, 20 in green, 20 in blue, two in vellum, one with primrose edges, one with a piece of mirror set in the cover. He also conducted some inside operations: "In thousands of copies of his books he had inserted . . . a 'Caution' in which he had disavowed authorship of a story . . . published in a magazine over his signature...
...first Alsifilm was whitish and opaque, like a tough vellum paper. This quality suggested its use as a durable medium for writing and printing. Dr. Hauser is now making another kind, from a clay he discovered in California's Death Valley, which is almost completely transparent and waterproof-usable as wrapper for tobacco and foods. He is also experimenting with this type as a possible material for photographic films and automobile windows...
...chemist was astonished. He had put his finger on a whitish deposit covering the inside of a glass vessel not much bigger than a thimble. He expected this substance to crumble at his touch. Instead, it came out intact, like a smooth, tough vellum paper. It stood on his desk, forming a model of the vessel which it had lined...
...historical interest in the group are two 14th century vellum manuscripts in Latin containing some of Europe's first book references to fishing...
...bound in rough grey paper with a vellum back and leather label stamped in gold. The first two-thirds deal with Lawrence's days as a private in the Air Force, which he joined in August 1922 after resigning his rank as Political Adviser in the Colonial Office. The remainder tells of his less harrowing days in the Cadet Corps. To protest the betrayal of the Arab cause at the Peace Conference, at which his promises to Arab leaders were broken, Lawrence refused his Colonial Office salary for six months, worked in an architect's office, went hungry...