Printing : a practical treatise on the art of typography as applied more particularly to the printing of books (1904)
Jacobi, Charles Thomas · London : G. Bell & Sons · leaf 137
o fold the sheet into four, or quarto, and measurethe length and width of two pages, as in fig. 81. Thencalculate the spare margin between the arrows, and if therule we laid down as regards proportion be adopted, placetwo-fifths in back or head, and allow three-fifths for fore-edge and tail. When… … FIG. 82. ADJUSTING FORE-EDGE MARGINS. with by the binder, come out with equal margins on thefore-edge for octavo. In other sizes, with a greater numberof pages, the sheet should be turned theother way and made out lengthwise preciselyin the same manner. Type Hivasiires.—For measuring purposesa,…
