In the first place he has a surface to work upon that is large enough to allow strength of treatment, yet small enough to admit delicacy; then, whatever in beautiful effects of setting, relief, harmony, and contrast can be brought about by blind tooling, gilding, and inlaying, or by rubbing the surface as in crushed levant, or Variegating it as in "tree" or marbled calf, all this he can command.
"The Booklover and His Books"
Harry Lyman Koopman