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. 79. These should be of interest in showing the progressmade by pupils who but a few years ago were be-ginners. We trust that those among our readers whoare just entering the ranks of would-be bookbinderswill receive some stimulus from these illustrations. 108 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. which should induce them to go forward until they,by careful and persistent application, and constantpractice, will be abl
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. 79. These should be of interest in showing the progressmade by pupils who but a few years ago were be-ginners. We trust that those among our readers whoare just entering the ranks of would-be bookbinderswill receive some stimulus from these illustrations. 108 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. which should induce them to go forward until they,by careful and persistent application, and constantpractice, will be able to achieve similar success. Andwe can promise that their efforts will be to themsuch a source of pleasure, and the finished books willbecome such delightful possessions to themselvesand their friends, that they will be repaid tenfold forthe labour and time bestowed upon their The frontispiece (Fig. 78) is taken from a book whichwas bound in olive green levant ; the flowers wereinlaid with yellow levant and tooled in gold. Thewhole was designed and executed by Miss G. Iceton. Fig. 79 was designed and executed by Miss book was covered with brown levant morocco,inlaid with red morocco. PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 109 Fig. 80 is an illustration of a book bound in brownlevant morocco, inlaid with green morocco, andfinished with gold tooling. Fig. 81.—This book was covered with blue morocco,inlaid and gold tooled. Both this and Fig. 80 areexamples of work done by Miss G. Iceton.
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