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. 6. would be delivered when cracking up any hardsubstance, must be carefully avoided, as blows ofthis kind made upon paper would certainly bruise andcut it through. The sections will then be ready forpressing. If the book should be in sheets whichhave been folded by the worker, the hammering isdispensed with, and the sections need pressing only—this being sufficient to flatten them and cause themto lie

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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. 6. would be delivered when cracking up any hardsubstance, must be carefully avoided, as blows ofthis kind made upon paper would certainly bruise andcut it through. The sections will then be ready forpressing. If the book should be in sheets whichhave been folded by the worker, the hammering isdispensed with, and the sections need pressing only—this being sufficient to flatten them and cause themto lie close 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 ;

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