gilt-edged page

He walked back to the reading table and stood fingering the gilt-edged pages of the volume idly.

The final product was bound in red cloth with gilt-edged pages, completed only two days before the release date of 19 December 1843.

The envelope contained a leather-bound book with gilt-edged pages, very thin, almost transparent.

The gilt-edged pages that follow are filled with inscriptions from her teachers and classmates in Oswego, many accompanied by small photos.

Gilt-edged pages complete the trompe l'oeil effect of this 18th-century volume, the size of a missal.

There was a candle burning at Duncan's end of the bench, and the priest was absorbed in the study of a small, leather-bound book with gilt-edged pages.

The binding alone, Richard thought, was worth the price: burgundy leather with gold tooling, gilt-edged pages; the book was as beautiful as a rug or a painting.

In the 1820s and 1830s, Mary Shelley frequently wrote short stories for gift books or annuals, including sixteen for The Keepsake, which was aimed at middle-class women and bound in silk, with gilt-edged pages.

It was only after she had fumbled to light a candle and begun to leaf through the gilt-edged pages of her beloved book that she would begin to remember not only where she was, but who she was as well.

They could spend hours in there, enveloped in the delicately dusty, dry, alluring scent of books, poring over leather-bound volumes with gilt-edged pages, stacks of ancient magazines, battered paperbacks whose corners were rounded and softened with age.

I opened the notebook where my finger had come to rest, reflecting that the act of ruffling my fingers along the gilt-edged pages had been identical to one of the classic moves a conjuror makes when forcing a playing-card on a subject.

Quickly shuffling through the gilt-edged pages of one of these books, he reread the beginnings and all the middle years of dwarfdom, when the greatest and most glorious of all the kingdoms of Underearth were powerful forces in the affairs of all who dwelt in the lower meadows of Windameir.