. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. BOOKBINDING Itismx^. Hooks »re ctirrioU by post at 1 cuut for2oz8.— S,i- rorn;, rKlSTlNU, Itc. Bookbinders Clotb, colored cottons, enara-olliil or uiul)()!iswl, made in imitation of leatlier ormorocco, and used instea<l of leather in bindingbi)ol per cent. Bookbinding. This useful and elejiant artcomprises a numher of ingenious applications ofleather, cloth, paper, and gold. — Foldimj. .Sup-posing a book to be bound in leather in mediumsize, the first process is to fold the sheets of paperinto pages, ac
. The American encyclopædia of commerce, manufactures, commercial law, and finance. BOOKBINDING Itismx^. Hooks »re ctirrioU by post at 1 cuut for2oz8.— S,i- rorn;, rKlSTlNU, Itc. Bookbinders Clotb, colored cottons, enara-olliil or uiul)()!iswl, made in imitation of leatlier ormorocco, and used instea<l of leather in bindingbi)ol per cent. Bookbinding. This useful and elejiant artcomprises a numher of ingenious applications ofleather, cloth, paper, and gold. — Foldimj. .Sup-posing a book to be bound in leather in mediumsize, the first process is to fold the sheets of paperinto pages, according to size of the book. Thereare certain marks put in by the printer, called aiij-natures, to guide the folder. The folding is madeon a flat table, by women, with iho aid of a longpaper-knife; practice enables them to do it willigreat , and with a rapidity of 3U0 to 6t)0octavo in an h(mr. — Rolling. The sheetsrequire to be rolled or pressed to make themsmooth and compact. This compression used to. Fig. 39.— Sheridans Levkb ;k-Cutter,lri»i Band or Automatic Qamp. be done by beating them in small clusters at atime with a hammer of 12 lbs. or 14 weight;but it is now better effected by a consists of two smooth horizontal iron rollers,placed a stuall distance apart. The process iscompleted in a shorter time, it compresses thesheets into a more compact mass, and makes themsmoother than by hammering. Sometimes, how-ever, the sheets are placed in an hydraulic press.— Sewing. The sheets forming one volume, broughttogether in a mass, are in a cutting-press, andsaw-cuts made across the back edge to receive thebands or cords to which the sheets are to be sewed,and which aid in fastening the covers. The .sew-ing-press was then coming in use, but it has beenrecently superseded by an ingenious little machineof .\merican invention, by which a bit of wire isdriven through the sheets and clinched at oneblow on the other si
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