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 . es for readjustment,owing to cither boards or book having slipped professional workers have such difficulties tocontend against. When all is accurately fixed, wemust again remind our readers how necessary it is toscrew up the press quite tightly before proceedingwith the cutting, which is then accomplished in themanner previously advised for head and tail. Itmay be noted that the left-hand cutting
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 . es for readjustment,owing to cither boards or book having slipped professional workers have such difficulties tocontend against. When all is accurately fixed, wemust again remind our readers how necessary it is toscrew up the press quite tightly before proceedingwith the cutting, which is then accomplished in themanner previously advised for head and tail. Itmay be noted that the left-hand cutting board here 72 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. forms the cut against in place of the millboardstrip, the right-hand board being called the the book is removed from the press, and theleaves are opened out, the boards may be replaced intotheir respective positions. The back will then assumeits previous shape, and in consequence the fore-edgewill become concave ; and, if all has been donecorrectly, the edges of the leaves will be quite parallelwith the front edges of the millboards. Shouldthey appear to be cut unparallel, the book hasevidently not been fixed accurately in the press,. Fig. 54. Fig. 55. and the whole must therefore be re-fixed in the pressagain and the irregularities be cut away. Cutting Out-of-Boards.—This method is adoptedfor case work, , for books which are to be put intopublishers! cases, or for books which are sewn ontapes. If a guillotine is available, this may be used,the book being cut in the flat after sewing and beforerounding and backing. But, of course, the edgeproduced will be inferior to an edge which has beencut by the plough. The following method for cutting a book out-of-boards is recommended :—The rounding, backing, PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 73 pressing, and cleaning of the back arc carried out inthe way previously described. The boards are thentemporarily attached to the waste sheet of the end-papers by a little glue, the right-hand board
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