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. 56 the glass-paper around some solid substance, , apiece of cork, wood, or a flat piece of rubbing the glass-paper up and down the edge avery smooth surface will be produced, which should becovered with a paste, composed of equal parts of black-lead and red chalk, or bole, mixed with a little recipe for glaire is given on page 127. This pasteshould be spread equally over t
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. 56 the glass-paper around some solid substance, , apiece of cork, wood, or a flat piece of rubbing the glass-paper up and down the edge avery smooth surface will be produced, which should becovered with a paste, composed of equal parts of black-lead and red chalk, or bole, mixed with a little recipe for glaire is given on page 127. This pasteshould be spread equally over the surface with asponge, and then polished with a fairly hard brush(see Fig. 56). This process gives a body to the surfacewhich will readily receive the gold leaf. Some bindersprefer to use red chalk only in preparing the edges. 76 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. In this case the blacklead is omitted, the chalk andglaire only being sufficient to form a good surface. Gold Leaf for the purpose can be purchased insmall books, each containing about 25 leaves, each. -,??:;,;< Fig. 57. 3 ins. square. The price of a booklet varies fromis. 3d. to 3s., according to the quality and thicknessof the beaten gold. The squares of gold leaf are firstcut to suitable sizes on the gold cushion with the goldknife (both are illustrated in Fig. 57). This operation, PRACTICAL BOOKBlNDING. 77 which requires some practice, is carried out as the book of gold leaf ; slip the long blade of theknife carefully under the centre of one of the squaresof gold ; lift it up, and turn the gold right overon to the cushion. Flatten out the gold by just abreath from the mouth, which should be deliveredright over the centre of the square. In handling goldleaf a position in the room free from draught shouldbe selected, as otherwise it not infrequently happensthat the gold is blown completely off the 58 shows the operation of cutting the gold leaf.
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