Edges cut. A book or pamphlet cut down sufficiently to make all the edges quite smooth.
Edges gilt. Book edges cut and gilded.
Edges opened. A book or pamphlet opened, the folds of the leaves being cut by hand with a paper knife.
Edges red. Book edges cut and colored red.
Edges rolled. When the edges of the covers are marked with a roll, either in gold or blind.
Edges rounded. Corners rounded to prevent their becoming dog’s-eared.
Edges trimmed. A book or pamphlet with the edges cut enough to make them tidy, but not enough to cut the folds of the leaves.
Edges untouched. A book or pamphlet with edges uncut and unopened.
Edition de luxe. Applied to large paper editions of books, and to special editions which are in fact, or are claimed to be, unusually well and expensively made.
Embossed. When a plate is so stamped upon a sheet or cover as to produce a raised figure or design.