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 80
same purpose) is held in a slightlyoblique position between the thumb and fingers ofboth hands. It is then pushed forward so that theburr will just catch the paper, and will produce, whenso pushed, a series of fine shavings. This operationrequires both care and attention, as careless work willruin… … Fig. 56 the glass-paper around some solid substance, e.g., apiece of cork, wood, or a flat piece of indiarubber.By rubbing the glass-paper up and down the edge avery smooth surface will be produced, which should becovered with a paste, composed of equal parts of black-lead and red chalk, or bole,…
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