Practical bookbinding : a text-book intended for those who take up the art of bookbinding, and designed to give sufficient help to enable handy persons to bind their books and periodicals (1908)
Pearce, W. B. (William Bonner) · London : P. Marshall · leaf 100
PRACTICAL BOOKBINDING. 95 round the book at the joints, i.e., at the junction of theboards with the back, and tied. The thread shouldslip into the little nicks formed by cutting off thecorners of the back edges of the boards before lacing in(see Fig. 39). The head-caps are now formed with afolder… … Fig. 74. a folder round the back edge of the head-cap, and thusthe sharp flat edge is formed. In criticising thecovering of a book one would notice particularly theshape of the head-caps and the care with which theyhave been formed. During the process of covering,it may occasionally be found…
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