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 82
gold leaf ; slip the long blade of theknife carefully under the centre of one of the squaresof gold ; lift it up, and turn the gold right overon to the cushion. Flatten out the gold by just abreath from the mouth, which should be deliveredright over the centre of the square. In handling goldleaf a… … Fig. 60. Fig. 59. The knife should be moved across with a sawingmotion. Strips of white paper, somewhat wider andlonger than the edges of the book, should have beenpreviously cut, and prepared by rubbing their surfaceswith either a little bees-wax or a modicum of greaseobtained by rubbing the…
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