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 . tools should be placed in proper order upon the stove,as shown in Fig. 84, and after being laid out incorrect position, they should be picked up, used, andreturned again to the same position, so that theymay be ready to hand for picking up again if this way the worker will soon become accustomedto find the tool required without wasting time inlooking them over. It is advisable to impress all PRA
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 . tools should be placed in proper order upon the stove,as shown in Fig. 84, and after being laid out incorrect position, they should be picked up, used, andreturned again to the same position, so that theymay be ready to hand for picking up again if this way the worker will soon become accustomedto find the tool required without wasting time inlooking them over. It is advisable to impress all PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. II7 the lettering in blind first, and the tools may be usedcooler than for gold tooling. The correct method ofholding and using the tools is shown in Fig. 84, anda larger view of the same operation may be seen inFig. 85. The face of the tool should be kept levelwith the surface of the cover ; an even downward. Fig. 86. pressure should be given when making the impression,and it should be made as uniformly as possible. Inspacing out for the lettering, whether title, author,or date, etc., one must be guided by the length of thetitle, etc., and by the size of the book. The title isgenerally placed in the second panel from the top ofthe book, and the authors name may be also placed in n8 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. the same panel if the title be a short one, or in anyof the three following panels. If the back is a plain r iI * >i) oo ?iV•Jffla KB? ^|0 ass* * ^|i^ Fig. 87. one, without raised bands, the lettering may runfrom tail to head—that is, if it is impossible to get it PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. II9 across ; but for a book * with bands the letteringshould be placed in the panels, , the spaces betweenthe bands. In Fig. 86 four typical lettered backsare shown. These examples may be consideredmerely as suggestions. Beginners in their earlyattempts at lettering will find it very profitable
Size: 1355px × 1844px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, booksubjectbookbinding, bookyear
