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Bookbinding, and the care of books : a text-book for bookbinders and librarians (1911)

Cockerell, Douglas · London : J. Hogg · leaf 250

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with perhaps the date of thegift, is of value. The use of the small fillet makes itpossible to employ long, slightly-curved 246 lines. Gold-tooled lines have in them- Combiningselves such great beauty, that designers Tools toare often tempted to make them meander p^^^^about the cover in a weak and… … Fig. III. at first to restrict the curved lines in theirpatterns to such as can be readily workedwith gouges. It must be remembered that a gougeor fillet line is very thin, and will lookweak if it goes far without support. Forthis reason interlaced lines are advocated. Gouge lines are easier to…

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