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 . heads :— (i) Whole Binding.—In this form of covering,leather of some kind is used to cover the wholeoutside of the book. (2) Half Binding.—Leather is also used in thiscase, but only the back, a portion of the sides, and thefour corners, are covered with it, the centre partof the boards being covered with cloth, linen, orpaper. (3) Cloth Binding.—In this method the books arecovered entirely with cloth or lin
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 . heads :— (i) Whole Binding.—In this form of covering,leather of some kind is used to cover the wholeoutside of the book. (2) Half Binding.—Leather is also used in thiscase, but only the back, a portion of the sides, and thefour corners, are covered with it, the centre partof the boards being covered with cloth, linen, orpaper. (3) Cloth Binding.—In this method the books arecovered entirely with cloth or linen. (4) Vellum-Bound Books. Before proceeding to study in detail the variousmethods of covering a book, it will be helpful forthe beginner to thoroughly understand the differencebetween what are technically known as flexible and PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 87 hollow backs. Fig. 66 and Fig. 67 will also beof some assistance in pointing out this will there be seen, the flexible back fits quite tightly,because the leather with which it has been covered isattached directly on to the back of the book, and thestrain consequent on opening is spread over and acrossFig. Fig. 67. the whole back, and also along the joints at thejunction where the boards are attached to the it is desired to arrange for such a back the bookis usually sewn flexibly, , around raised bands(see Chapter III). One of the disadvantages usuallyassociated with this kind of back is that, if in finishing 88 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. much gilt decoration is used to embellish the cover,the frequent opening to which the book will besubjected is apt to cause the gold to crack and peeloff. Still, a flexible tight back is in every way so muchstronger than a hollow back that the disadvantagementioned is scarcely worth consideration. One of the advantages claimed for the hollow backis that the strain in opening is transferred from thematerial with which it is covered on to the sectionsof which
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