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 . Before this can bedone the cut edges must be prepared to receive thegold leaf—first by scraping and afterwards bypolishing. Fig. 55 shows the manner of scraping. Aswill there be seen, the book is fixed firmly in the lyingor gilding press between two boards which are quiteflush with the edges of the leaves. Scraping.—The scraper (which is a piece oftempered steel, the extreme edge of which has been 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 . Before this can bedone the cut edges must be prepared to receive thegold leaf—first by scraping and afterwards bypolishing. Fig. 55 shows the manner of scraping. Aswill there be seen, the book is fixed firmly in the lyingor gilding press between two boards which are quiteflush with the edges of the leaves. Scraping.—The scraper (which is a piece oftempered steel, the extreme edge of which has been PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 75 burred by rubbing with a bodkin or other steel toolanswering the same purpose) is held in a slightlyoblique position between the thumb and fingers ofboth hands. It is then pushed forward so that theburr will just catch the paper, and will produce, whenso pushed, a series of fine shavings. This operationrequires both care and attention, as careless work willruin the squareness of the edges on which so muchlabour was bestowed in cutting. After scraping, veryfine glass-paper may be used over the surface of theedges. Glass-papering.—This is best done by wrapping. Fig. 56 the glass-paper around some solid substance, , apiece of cork, wood, or a flat piece of rubbing the glass-paper up and down the edge avery smooth surface will be produced, which should becovered with a paste, composed of equal parts of black-lead and red chalk, or bole, mixed with a little recipe for glaire is given on page 127. This pasteshould be spread equally over the surface with asponge, and then polished with a fairly hard brush(see Fig. 56). This process gives a body to the surfacewhich will readily receive the gold leaf. Some bindersprefer to use red chalk only in preparing the edges. 76 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. In this case the blacklead is omitted, the chalk andglaire only being sufficient to form a good surface. Gold Leaf for the purpose can be purchase
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