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 . en to thewooden screw, and if the knife is quite sharp, as itshould be, the edges will be cut perfectly regularand smooth. One of a beginners usual faults is thatof making ragged edges. These may be caused by—(a) twisting the screw of the plough too much at atime, and so trying to cut too many leaves at eachstroke ; (b) a dull knife ; or (c) from insufficientlyscrewing the book up when fixing it in the pres
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 . en to thewooden screw, and if the knife is quite sharp, as itshould be, the edges will be cut perfectly regularand smooth. One of a beginners usual faults is thatof making ragged edges. These may be caused by—(a) twisting the screw of the plough too much at atime, and so trying to cut too many leaves at eachstroke ; (b) a dull knife ; or (c) from insufficientlyscrewing the book up when fixing it in the the operations have been carefully carried out,when the book is removed from the press the relation PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 69 of the cut edges of the book to the edges of theboards will be quite parallel, as shown in Fig. 52 shows a similar book which has been badlycut. To cut the tail the book is turned upside down,when, of course, the left-hand board becomes theright-hand. This in turn is pulled downwards untilthe amount to be cut off the tail projects above theboard. The operations of fixing and cutting are pre-cisely the same as those which have been described for. Fig. si. Fig. 52. the head. The fore-edge, always the most difficultto adjust, is now prepared, by first pushing bothboards back into their exact positions, so that the depthof the squares at the head and the tail are justequal. The size (or depth) of these squares is thentaken off with the spring dividers, and a pencil line isdrawn down both end papers level with the fore-edgesof the boards. The head of the book should be kepttowards the worker ; and on the right-hand sidethe depth of the square should be marked by usingthe spring dividers already set—from the pencil linealready drawn. A second pencil line is then to be 7o PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. drawn, which will show the amount of projection thatis to be cut off. Both boards are now turned rightback and allowed to hang down, and a pair of trind
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