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. t6. in a pile, under the same weight. When they aredry it will be found easy to fold them back into theoriginal creases, which will place the four sheets in themanner seen in Fig. 17. —If the worker will adopt the following ruleand always carry it out, little difficulty will beexperienced :—Crease and paste only the plainpapers, and always attach the coloured ones to the convenience of th
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. t6. in a pile, under the same weight. When they aredry it will be found easy to fold them back into theoriginal creases, which will place the four sheets in themanner seen in Fig. 17. —If the worker will adopt the following ruleand always carry it out, little difficulty will beexperienced :—Crease and paste only the plainpapers, and always attach the coloured ones to the convenience of the reader we shall contentourselves hereafter by describing the coloured,marbled, or figured papers simply as coloured, all 30 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. others as plain, and as a further guide the fourpapers are marked numerically,* Fig 17, in orderto save a great amount of needless repetition in thefollowing chapters. Method No. 2.—By this method all the sheetsfor end papers, both plain and coloured, are selectedand folded once, as in method No. 1, Fig. 12, practice when folding, the folded edge should alwaysbe kept away from the worker. Place one coloured. Fig. 17. paper flat on the work-table, paste this all over ; takeup two plain papers together, lay these in positionso that the folded edges at the back exactly coincidewith the coloured, and rub them down well. Thensimilarly paste the top plain paper, and place anothercoloured one on the top of this, and thus the papers * No. i, Book paper, or white flyleaf; No. 2, Waste to betorn away ; No. 3, Book paper or coloured flyleaf ; No. 4,Paste down, or board paper. PRACTICAL i8. 31
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