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. 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 sh
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. 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 trindles(Fig. 5, P) are inserted, one each between the backedges of the boards and the top and bottom laycord. The boards of the book are then brought toa horizontal position, and the trindles will rest. Fig. 53. flat upon the insides of the boards, thus causingthe back of the book to become flat. Beech orbirch wood cutting boards, previously dampedwith a sponge, are placed on each side of the whole is then taken in both hands and therounded back is knocked quite flat. This is done by PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 71 striking it upon the face of the press. Both cuttingboards are next arranged so that their top edgesare quite level with the pencil lines on the end papers—the board on the right-hand side, of course, being keptlevel with the lower line. The left hand grips bothboards and book. The whole is raised up, and thetrindles are removed, as shown in Fig. 53. Bookand boards are lowered between the cheeks of thepress, until the right-hand board is quite level withthe face of the press, and the
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