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 . od quality should be obtained, as somuch is made that is inferior and usually containssulphuric acid, which is a very undesirable constituentand one that is likely to be detrimental to the object of this washing is to prevent the glaire (see Chap. XI) sinking into the leather and stainingit. A convenient method of applying the wash is to usea small sponge, which can be easily saturated with thew
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 . od quality should be obtained, as somuch is made that is inferior and usually containssulphuric acid, which is a very undesirable constituentand one that is likely to be detrimental to the object of this washing is to prevent the glaire (see Chap. XI) sinking into the leather and stainingit. A convenient method of applying the wash is to usea small sponge, which can be easily saturated with thewash if it be placed in a saucer or other open vessel. 112 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. Hold the book in the left hand, with thumb andlingers placed between the two boards and the book,so that the boards may be held open and away from thebook. This action and the capping on the edges willprevent the damp from damaging the leaves. The washshould be evenly spread all over the surface of theleather, and the book should afterwards be stood uponthe edges of the boards to dry. When dry, the linesof decoration may be marked out. If there is tobe tooling on the inside of the cover, this is usually. Fig. 83. done first ; secondly, the back is lettered anddecorated, and lastly the tooling is executed on thesides. One of two methods of Marking Out may be adopted. Firstly, as shownin Fig. 83, the book should be placed in the finishingpress, with pressing boards to support the the inside marking out, the book may rest on thetop of the press, with one board open, which may alsobe packed up level with pressing boards, the bookbeing afterwards turned over and the other sidetreated similarly. The requisite measurements are PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 113 marked with the spring dividers, and the marks thusmade are joined together by lines made with a bonefolder, which is guided against the edge of a flat method answers very well for straight lines,but for more elaborate designs the fol
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