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. 75. and also the four corner pieces should be cut out. Thesketch, Fig. 75, shows how the corners can be cut toavoid waste of leather. The leather should be paredin the manner previously described and illustrated inFigs. 68 and 69. The three long edges of the cornerpieces marked 1, 2, and 3 in Fig. 75 must be pareduntil the edges will turn over easily, and to thesense of touch the leather should feel th
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. 75. and also the four corner pieces should be cut out. Thesketch, Fig. 75, shows how the corners can be cut toavoid waste of leather. The leather should be paredin the manner previously described and illustrated inFigs. 68 and 69. The three long edges of the cornerpieces marked 1, 2, and 3 in Fig. 75 must be pareduntil the edges will turn over easily, and to thesense of touch the leather should feel thin. shows the operation of attaching the corner. Fig. 76. pieces of leather to the boards. The piece ofleather for the back also must be pared on theparts that will go over the back and joints, and somust the turning at head and tail. The latter piece PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 99 is then pasted, put on, and turned in, the back beingset squarely in the joint, and the head-cap is formedexactly as in the method given for whole the book may be set aside to dry. To preventthe corners and sides from being damaged during thesubsequent processes, it is usual to fix the corners onafter the book has been finished ; but, for the conve-nience of the reader, the operation is explained corner pieces one at a time should be pasted,and fixed carefully in position on the boards, thenthe turnings should be pressed over the edges of theboards, special attention being paid to the extremepoint on the corner of the board. The edges of theleather must be firmly pressed over each otherwith a folder so that one edge laps over the other ;
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