Bookbinding, and the care of books; a handbook for amateurs, bookbinders & librarians (1901)
Cockerell, Douglas · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 57
Refolding other, and creasing the fold to make themstay in that position. With a pair ofdividers (fig. 6) set to the height of theshortest top margin, points the same dis-tance above the headline of the other leavescan be made. Then against a carpenterssquare, adjusted to the back of the fold,… … Fig. 7. been previously cut this process is apt tothrow the leaves so far out of their originalposition as to make them unduly uneven. Accurate folding is impossible if the register of the printing is bad, that isto say, if the print on the back of a leafdoes not lie exactly over that on the front.…
Bookbinding · Books and reading
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