The title embossed on the spine was hard to read as the gold had mostly worn away leaving only the pale embossing.

Until the late 1930's, records were routinely packaged in albums covered with heavy art paper with only a title embossed on the front and spine.

Nor are the titles embossed on them encouraging - "Metashield," "Everyplace" and "Fullflower."

She caressed the leather-bound tome as she read the title, embossed on the rib in gold leaf.

The book has no title, no preface, no table of contents, nor any title embossed on its black spine, nor even printed pages evenly matched and marching end to end.

Picking it up, I found that it was actually more like a breviary, the title embossed in gold, the edges of the pages gilt, with a ribbon bookmark in ecclesiastical red; "La Base" is, in fact, a stylish little cookbook.

The title, embossed in gold, reads: "The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins."

Closing the volume, he turned it and its companions so that he could read the titles embossed on their spines.