Bookbinding, and the care of books; a handbook for amateurs, bookbinders & librarians (1901)
Cockerell, Douglas · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 127
back has a perfectly even curvewhen put in the press for backing, noamount of subsequent hammering will putit permanently right. The backs of the sections should beevenly fanned out one over the otherfrom the centre outwards on both sides. 121 Rounding and Backing This is done by side strokes of… … Fig. 41. the centre, but are either zigzagged bybeing crushed by direct blows of the ham-mer, as shown in fig. 42, A, or are un-evenly fanned over more to one side thanthe other, as shown in fig. 42, B, the back,although it may be even enough whenfirst done, will probably become uneven122 with use.…
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