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Bookbinding, and the care of books; a handbook for amateurs, bookbinders & librarians (1901)

Cockerell, Douglas · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 252

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t, 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 mabout the cover in a weak and… … 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 work, andlook…

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