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Era un hilo de oro grueso, y relucía a la luz de las llamas.
It was thick gold thread. It was twinkling in the light of the fire.
La línea interior de la encuadernación era dorada, y los cantos de oro grueso, y las guardas estaban veteadas de mármol carmesí con uniones doradas, y la encuadernación era de Webster’s, «Proveedores oficiales de la reina Alejandra».
A handsome book, too, the inner border of the binding tooled in gold, thick gold on the page-edges, the endpapers with gold-seamed crimson marbling, bound by Webster’s, ‘By Appointment to Queen Alexandra’.
De oro grueso y grabados con las iniciales «E. R.», podrían ser contemporáneos, pero de hecho habían sido un regalo a su abuelo tarambana, el sir Nicholas Pratt de su época y leal cortesano de Eduardo VII.
Made of thick gold and engraved with the initials E.R., they might have been contemporary, but had in fact been a present to his rakish grandfather, the Sir Nicholas Pratt of his day and a loyal courtier of Edward VII’s.
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