Bookbinding, and the care of books; a handbook for amateurs, bookbinders & librarians (1901)
Cockerell, Douglas · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 171
round the backfrom head to tail, squeez-ing the leather in the gapcaused by the corners of the board havingbeen cut off. The book is then turnedup on end, resting the tail on a folderor anything that will keep the projectingleather for the head-cap from being pre-maturely flattened. The head-caps… … is then tapped over the headband, and the Coveringwhole turned over on the stone and rubbedat the back with a folder. This opera-tion requires great nicety. The shape ofhead-cap is shown at fig. 67. The niceadjustment of head-caps and corners, al-though of no constructional value, are the
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