[Coggeshall, William Turner], 1824-1867, [from old catalog] ed · Columbus, Follett, Foster and company · leaf 86
d the chase small pieces of wood, which decrease inwidth in the same proportion as the side-stick, and which arecalled quoins. He now takes off the cords from the pages,and, as he removes each cord, he tightens the adjacent * A large slab of marble or stone is used for this purpose ; but it is… … IKOOl PHEaS. Printing—Practical. 69 quoins that the letters at the sides of the pages may not slipdown. When all the pages are untied, and the quoinspushed up with his finger and thumb, he planes down thepages gently with a ijlaner (a piece of beech perfectly planeand smooth on the face, about 9…
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