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 . trated in Fig. 72,and the instructions which were given for wholebinding should be followed. The fore-edges are then turned in and flatteneddown. The surplus material at the corners may becut away with scissors (see Fig. 77), and the materialshould then be carefully tucked in at the extreme corners of theboards, and fixeddown well on theinside. The cover-ing material atthe back — ,the position forthe he
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 . trated in Fig. 72,and the instructions which were given for wholebinding should be followed. The fore-edges are then turned in and flatteneddown. The surplus material at the corners may becut away with scissors (see Fig. 77), and the materialshould then be carefully tucked in at the extreme corners of theboards, and fixeddown well on theinside. The cover-ing material atthe back — ,the position forthe head-cap inwhole binding —should be flat-tened with afolder. Aftercovering, the bookshould receive a nip in the standing press (unless the coveringis grained cloth), and afterwards be placed undera light weight for hours. If desired, a hollow back may be used for leathercovering. In this case false bands are usually puton—that is to say, after the back has been lined up,strips of leather of the same width as the bands arerequired to be are glued in correct position on to theoutside of the lining paper. The leather cover is after-wards worked over these stuck-on bands, in the way. PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. IO3 previously described for the covering on the raisedlay cords. Of course, this is done to imitate a bookse,vn flexibly, and the book, when placed upon theshelf, cannot be distinguished from the genuine style.(4) Vellum-Bound Books.—As regards the pre-liminary operations, this style of book may beprepared exactly as for leather, except that, owingto the stiff nature of vellum, it is advisable to forwardfor a hollow back, and such books should be sewneither on tapes or strips of vellum, and a French jointis better than a close one. When ready for covering,the cut vellum should be lined with white paper onthe flesh side : this is the side to be attached to theboards. After carefully pasting the lining paper,place it with the pasted side down on to another sparepiece of pape
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