Bookbinding, and the care of books; a handbook for amateurs, bookbinders & librarians (1901)
Cockerell, Douglas · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 99
Sewing Trimming The brass-bound straight edge C fits on tobefore s]0ts in A A, and as this, by the adjust-ment of the slides, can be fixed at anydistance from B B, all sizes of books canbe trimmed. As by this machine severalsections can be cut at once, the time taken … Fig. 24. is not very much greater than if the bookwere cut in the plough. Considerable judgment is required intrimming. The edges of the larger pagesonly, on a previously uncut book, shouldbe cut, leaving the smaller pages un-touched. Such uncut pages are called proof, and the existence of proof in…
Bookbinding · Books and reading
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