Bookbinding, and the care of books; a handbook for amateurs, bookbinders & librarians (1901)
Cockerell, Douglas · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 168
ging theleather on to the side; but by far thebetter plan, when the back is large enoughto allow it, is to work up the surplusleather on to the back between the panels.This requires a good deal of practice, andis very seldom done ; but it can be donewith most satisfactory results. The bookshould… … all. The leather on the fore-edge of theboard is then rubbed with the hand onthe outside, and then on to the edge,and then on the inside. The edge andthe inside are smoothed down with afolder, and any excessive paste on the 163 Covering inside squeezed out and removed. Whenthe fore-edge of both…
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