The craftsman . Book covers by Miss Foote. ON THE BINDING OF 4-1 pasting back of the end papers, by which the fly leaves,folded back over the covers and cut to match perfectly theleather margins around the edges, are pasted down; mak-ing an attractive lining to the inside of the boards andhiding the rather unfinished look of the joints. Here then, is our hand-boundbook, the making of which has been described in a some-what detailed fashion, though many important itemswhich play a large part in the work, have been omitted. The love of a beautiful book isa thing apart from the love of lit
The craftsman . Book covers by Miss Foote. ON THE BINDING OF 4-1 pasting back of the end papers, by which the fly leaves,folded back over the covers and cut to match perfectly theleather margins around the edges, are pasted down; mak-ing an attractive lining to the inside of the boards andhiding the rather unfinished look of the joints. Here then, is our hand-boundbook, the making of which has been described in a some-what detailed fashion, though many important itemswhich play a large part in the work, have been omitted. The love of a beautiful book isa thing apart from the love of literature and reading, andalthough there is an unregenerate public who care asmuch for what a book contains as they do for its covers,yet even this public must own that there is an indefinablecharm in a perfect binding; one in which the visible and Jietangible beauties are supplemented by honest workman-ship and honest material. And when to the charm ofthis perfected whole is added the joy of building up andcompleting each part of it, small
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