Bookbinding, and the care of books : a text-book for bookbinders and librarians (1911)
Cockerell, Douglas · London : J. Hogg · leaf 98
ough. Considerable judgment is required intrimming. The edges of the larger pagesonly, on a previously uncut book, shouldbe cut, leaving the smaller pages un-touched. Such uncut pages are called proof, and the existence of proof in abound book is evidence that it has notbeen unduly cut. Before… … To gild the edges of trimmed sections, Edge the book must be knocked up to the Gilding fore-edge, getting as many of the short leaves as possible to the front. It is then put into the * lying press, with gilding boards on each side (see fig. No. 2c), and -^^ Fig. 2^. screwedup tightly. Very little…
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