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Quite by chance I passed the house three days later on my way to a book-binder in Clipstone Street.
Tres días después, de camino a un encuadernador de Clipstone Street, por casualidad pasé delante de su casa.
I mixed the three different liquids used by book-binders in marbling the covers of their calf bindings. When they ferment they are imbued with a dark brown colour.
Mezclé los tres líquidos que los encuadernadores emplean para vetear las tapas de piel de becerro y que, cuando fermentan, adquieren un tono marrón oscuro.
Marcia Blaine School for Girls was a day school which had been partially endowed in the middle of the nineteenth century by the wealthy widow of an Edinburgh book-binder.
La Escuela Marcia Blaine para niñas era una escuela sin internado que había sido parcialmente fundada, a medidos del siglo XIX, por la acaudalada viuda de un encuadernador de Edimburgo.
Their surnames all ended in ini: Bergamini, Bolognini, Santini, Scanavini, Zaccarini – that sort of thing, which brought to mind, with their diminutives, the most petit-bourgeois of families – milliners, delicatessen shopkeepers, book-binders, council employees and so on.
Sus apellidos terminaban todos en -ini: Bergamini, Bolognini, Santini, Scanavini, Zaccarini y otros similares, que evocan familias pequeñísimo-burguesas de merceros, chacineros, encuadernadores, empleados del ayuntamiento, gestores de propiedades, etcétera.
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