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 . always used for leather bindings, and thelatter may be used for cloth or linen covers. Pasting Down Open.—The protecting end paper,called the waste sheet (No. 2, in Fig. 17) should firstbe torn out, and the joint be cleared of any particles ofglue or paste. Should a leather or other joint havebeen put in, the board paper should be carefully cutand trimmed to fit into the panel (see Chapter VIII).The book is
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 . always used for leather bindings, and thelatter may be used for cloth or linen covers. Pasting Down Open.—The protecting end paper,called the waste sheet (No. 2, in Fig. 17) should firstbe torn out, and the joint be cleared of any particles ofglue or paste. Should a leather or other joint havebeen put in, the board paper should be carefully cutand trimmed to fit into the panel (see Chapter VIII).The book is then placed down flat with one board open,and to keep it in this position pressing boards are put 124 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. underneath. If there is no joint the end paper (No. 4in Fig. 17) is carefully folded over the joint of thebook, , over the junction of the board and the book,and down on to the board. The three edges of theend papers are then to be trimmed in order that themargins of the turnings of the leather may showequally all round. To do this, after the paper hasbeen turned on to the board, make marks with thedividers on the end papers from the edges of the cover. Fig. 91. at head and tail, and from the fore-edge almostas far in as the depth of the margins of the turn the paper back on to a tin, which has beenplaced on the book, and with a very sharp knife, andusing a steel straightedge as a guide, cut throughthe marks made by the dividers, but leave at the backedges of head and tail a small piece of end paper,the depth of the joint—not cut. A coating ofmoderately thin paste is given to the paper, after PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 125 which it is folded over into its place, and well rubbeddown, especially in the joint. This latter point is very
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