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 . yonly just as much as will bring the knife level withthe shortest leaves. Consequently these leaves arenot actually cut at all, and thus form proof that thebook has not been cut down too much. The amountto be cut away should therefore not only have beendecided upon when the millboards were measured forthe book, but must still be adhered to at this that the back of the book is now held to-ward
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 . yonly just as much as will bring the knife level withthe shortest leaves. Consequently these leaves arenot actually cut at all, and thus form proof that thebook has not been cut down too much. The amountto be cut away should therefore not only have beendecided upon when the millboards were measured forthe book, but must still be adhered to at this that the back of the book is now held to-wards the worker, the millboard on the right-handside is drawn down until the amount to be cut off theedge shows above the top edge of the board. A waste PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 67 strip of millboard is placed between the left-handboard and the book ; this strip is termed a cut-against,and is used to prevent the knife from cutting into theboards of the book. The book is then lowered into thecutting press and, in order to keep the book andboards from slipping, the press is screwed up justtightly enough to allow the whole to be pressed downuntil the top edge of the right-hand board is Hush. Fig. 50. with the face of the press, and the left-hand boardslightly above and quite parallel with the left sideof the press. This is then screwed up quite tightlyand the edge of the right board forms a guide for theknife. It is very important to ascertain that theleft-hand board is perfectly parallel with the face of thepress, as the truth and squareness of the edges to becut depend entirely upon the care and accuracy withwhich this process of fixing the book has been carried 68 \: PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. out. The: reader may be reminded that the ploughused to cut the edges is arranged to work on theopposite side of the press to that used for the pro-cesses described in Chapters II and III. The ploughis shown in use in Fig. 50. Before commencingcutting, the face of the plough should be placed on th
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