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. 7. Pressing.—To do this proceed as follows :—Place a pressing board flat on the bench and on 2 l8 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. the top of this a pressing tin to protect the a sheet of clean paper over this tin ; next put afew sections on this, then another piece of paper, againa tin and another piece of paper, and more sections ;. Fig. and so on until all are in position. On the top of allplace
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. 7. Pressing.—To do this proceed as follows :—Place a pressing board flat on the bench and on 2 l8 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. the top of this a pressing tin to protect the a sheet of clean paper over this tin ; next put afew sections on this, then another piece of paper, againa tin and another piece of paper, and more sections ;. Fig. and so on until all are in position. On the top of allplace another pressing board. (Fig. 7.) The wholeshould then be put in the press, which is afterwardsscrewed down tightly. The size of the tins and PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 19 pressing boards should be somewhat larger than thesections, and on no account smaller. A standing-press is illustrated in Fig. 8. Precautions to be taken in pressing :— (1) All the sections must be arranged exactlyover each other; and (2) if the book be illustratedwith coloured plates, or engravings, they must beprotected with sheets of tissue paper; or it is evenbetter to remove them from the book altogether, andfix them in afterwards with guards after pressing.(For guards, see Chapter II.) (3) Folded maps or similar illustrations mustb2 specially protected, by the use of tins placedon each side between them and the printed matter. (4) Should the letterpress be of such a characterthat it is likely to set off —this meaning that theprinted matter on one
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