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 . own to the back of thebook. The ends of the projecting support on eitherside are to be cut off quite close to the silk. A littleglue applied to each part where it is tied down willassist in holding it firmly to the book. To line up theback a strip of brown or other fairly thick paper shouldbe cut off the same width as the back of the book anddeep enough to come down to the first band from each 84 PRACTICAL
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 . own to the back of thebook. The ends of the projecting support on eitherside are to be cut off quite close to the silk. A littleglue applied to each part where it is tied down willassist in holding it firmly to the book. To line up theback a strip of brown or other fairly thick paper shouldbe cut off the same width as the back of the book anddeep enough to come down to the first band from each 84 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. end. A piece may also be glued between each band ifthe book is large and heavy ; and if it has a plain backwithout bands, a strip of paper should be glued thewhole length. This paper is firmly fixed to book andhead-bands, by being rubbed well with a bone folder,to ensure its firm adhesion, and when dry it is rubbedover with a piece of glass-paper, to remove any paperfrom the silk strands where they are tied down to thebook, and thus make a smoother surface for —This consists of a covering of paperplaced over the finished edges in order to protect them. Fig. 65. during the succeeding operations through which thebook has to pass. A sheet of paper is cut, in sizetwice the width of the book, , measuring from fore-edge to back and plus the thickness. The lengthshould equal the distance from head to tail, plustwice the thickness, and have two to three inches tospare. This paper is placed between one of theboards and the end paper, and the board, when closedto the book, holds the paper in position—the latterbeing moved and regulated until the projectionsat the head and tail are about equal. The amount PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 85 projecting at the fore-edge will, of course, be muchgreater. The paper should then be cut away to theshape shown in Fig. 65. The upper board is nowthrown back, and the covering paper is folded at thedotted lines over the for
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