Report of the Committee on leather for bookbinding (1905)
Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) Committee on leather for bookb inding, Cobham, Charles George Lyttelton, 8th viscount, 1842-1922, Wood, Henry Trueman, 1845-1929, London (England) Leathersellers' company · London, Pub, for the Society of arts by G. Bell & sons · leaf 47
al use up to the end of the i8thcentury, and is still used by the best binders. This form of binding must be expensive, as ittakes a long time to do. For most books a cheaperform is needed, and after examining and comparingmany bindings that had been subject to considerable use, the Sub-Committee… … Fig. 5.—Plates. The first diagram shows in section a Plate pasted on to a leaf ofa boolc. This method is faulty, because it takes up some ofthe back margin of the leaf; if the leaf is pressed back theplate is apt to split off. The second diagram shows the method of attaching a Plate bymeans of a…
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