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Definition of Deckle edge
1. Noun. Rough edge left by a deckle on handmade paper or produced artificially on machine-made paper.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Deckle Edge
Literary usage of Deckle edge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1911)
"... from the Swedish Cloth, deckle edge, $1.00 net, postage & cents An idyllic
play filled with romantic machinery of the Northern fairy tales and legends. ..."
2. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1903)
"Two volumes, large lomo, cloth decorative, profusely illustrated with full-page
photogravure and half-tone plates, deckle edge, flat back, gilt top, ..."
3. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1898)
"Tall lomo, handsome cover design, deckle-edge paper, gilt top. * $1.25 JOSEPH
JEFFERSON AT HOME Sir. Jefferson being recognized as the leading American ..."
4. The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America by Bibliographical Society of America (1922)
"If a deckle-edge paper is used (which is not to be recommended) the deckle edge
must h'e back of the straight edge after the sheet is folded—the edge of a ..."
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