Practical bookbinding : a text-book intended for those who take up the art of bookbinding, and designed to give sufficient help to enable handy persons to bind their books and periodicals . Fig. 17. paper flat on the work-table, paste this all over ; takeup two plain papers together, lay these in positionso that the folded edges at the back exactly coincidewith the coloured, and rub them down well. Thensimilarly paste the top plain paper, and place anothercoloured one on the top of this, and thus the papers * No. i, Book paper, or white flyleaf; No. 2, Waste to betorn away ; No. 3, Book paper
Practical bookbinding : a text-book intended for those who take up the art of bookbinding, and designed to give sufficient help to enable handy persons to bind their books and periodicals . Fig. 17. paper flat on the work-table, paste this all over ; takeup two plain papers together, lay these in positionso that the folded edges at the back exactly coincidewith the coloured, and rub them down well. Thensimilarly paste the top plain paper, and place anothercoloured one on the top of this, and thus the papers * No. i, Book paper, or white flyleaf; No. 2, Waste to betorn away ; No. 3, Book paper or coloured flyleaf ; No. 4,Paste down, or board paper. PRACTICAL i8. 31. Fig. 19. 32 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. for both ends of the book are prepared. Any numberof end papers of similar size may be pasted and piledup on each other. Pasting.—It will be convenient here to givedirections to be observed when pasting with a commence in the centre of the material to becoated with paste, and work the brush outwards inall directions, towards the outer edges. (Fig. 18.)Then cross hand over hand for convenience in pastingthe other portion of the surface. Fig. 19 will explainthis. If the above simple rule is always adopted,no paste will ever get on to the under surface. Thinpaste such as is recommended in Chapter XI shouldbe used. It is advisable to keep a stock of old newsor other papers, to place underneath when pasting, asa means of protecting the surface of the pasted papers should receive a nip in the standingpress to set them well together, and when removedthey should be hung upon the line to dry. A bookbinders line is simply a piece
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