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 . The frontispiece (Fig. 78) is taken from a book whichwas bound in olive green levant ; the flowers wereinlaid with yellow levant and tooled in gold. Thewhole was designed and executed by Miss G. Iceton. Fig. 79 was designed and executed by Miss book was covered with brown levant morocco,inlaid with red morocco. PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 109 Fig. 80 is an illustration of a book bound in brownlevant
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 . The frontispiece (Fig. 78) is taken from a book whichwas bound in olive green levant ; the flowers wereinlaid with yellow levant and tooled in gold. Thewhole was designed and executed by Miss G. Iceton. Fig. 79 was designed and executed by Miss book was covered with brown levant morocco,inlaid with red morocco. PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 109 Fig. 80 is an illustration of a book bound in brownlevant morocco, inlaid with green morocco, andfinished with gold tooling. Fig. 81.—This book was covered with blue morocco,inlaid and gold tooled. Both this and Fig. 80 areexamples of work done by Miss G. Fig. 81. Well finished whole-bound books are usually dec-orated on the inside of the boards as well as the out-side. The inside decoration may consist of straightlines, or may be a design which is in keeping with theoutside cLcj-j/.i ;::. 110 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. Fig. 82 is an illustration from the inside cover ofa book, and is intended to give the reader some ideaof the treatment required. In Fig. 82 a leatherjoint will be seen. The end papers were cut to formthe panel, and will be seen fixed between the turn-ings and the joint. In elaborate work a leather
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