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. 57. 3 ins. square. The price of a booklet varies fromis. 3d. to 3s., according to the quality and thicknessof the beaten gold. The squares of gold leaf are firstcut to suitable sizes on the gold cushion with the goldknife (both are illustrated in Fig. 57). This operation, PRACTICAL BOOKBlNDING. 77 which requires some practice, is carried out as the book of gold leaf ; slip the
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. 57. 3 ins. square. The price of a booklet varies fromis. 3d. to 3s., according to the quality and thicknessof the beaten gold. The squares of gold leaf are firstcut to suitable sizes on the gold cushion with the goldknife (both are illustrated in Fig. 57). This operation, PRACTICAL BOOKBlNDING. 77 which requires some practice, is carried out as the book of gold leaf ; slip the long blade of theknife carefully under the centre of one of the squaresof gold ; lift it up, and turn the gold right overon to the cushion. Flatten out the gold by just abreath from the mouth, which should be deliveredright over the centre of the square. In handling goldleaf a position in the room free from draught shouldbe selected, as otherwise it not infrequently happensthat the gold is blown completely off the 58 shows the operation of cutting the gold Fig. 60. Fig. 59. The knife should be moved across with a sawingmotion. Strips of white paper, somewhat wider andlonger than the edges of the book, should have beenpreviously cut, and prepared by rubbing their surfaceswith either a little bees-wax or a modicum of greaseobtained by rubbing the surface of the paper acrossthe hair of the head or the skin. This is done inorder that the gold leaf may adhere to the paper justsufficiently to enable it to be picked up off the cushion,as shown in Fig. 59. When enough strips of gold have thus been cut andprepared, a coat of glaire should be applied with abroad camel-hair brush to the already polished surface 78 PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. of the book edges ; and while this is still wet the goldleaf is held over, and gradually lowered until ittouches the glairc (see Fig. 60). The moment the goldleaf and the glaire come in contact the glaire will pullthe leaf from the pap
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