Bookbinding, and the Care of Books: A Handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Douglas Cockerell

Author:Douglas Cockerell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: D. Appleton and company
Published: 1901-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

Fig. 70.

and the overlapping leather from both sides removed, leaving what should be a neat and straight join. If the leather at the extreme corner should prove to be, as is often the case, too thick to turn in neatly, the corners should be opened out and the leather pared against the thumb nail, and then well pasted and turned back again. The extreme corner may be slightly tapped on the stone with a hammer, and the sides rubbed with a folder, to ensure squareness and sharpness. When all four corners have been mitred, the filling in papers can be pasted in. As they will probably stretch a little with the paste, it will be well to cut off a slight shaving, and they should then fit exactly. When the boards have been filled in and well rubbed 170

down, the book should be left for som£ Mitring hours with the boards standing open to Comers and enable the filling-in papers to draw the rmui 8 m boards slightly inwards to overcome the pull of the leather.

In cases where there are leather joints the operation is as follows: The waste end paper is removed, and the edge of the board and joint carefully cleaned from glue and all irregularities, and if, as is most likely, it is curved from the pull of the leather, the board must be tapped or ironed down until it is perfectly straight. If there is difficulty in making the board lie straight along the joint before pasting down, it will be well first to fill in with a well pasted and stretched thin paper, which, if the boards are left open, will draw them inwards. If the leather joint is pasted down while the board is curved, the result will be a most unsightly projection on the outside. When the joint has been cleaned out, and the board made to lie flat, the leather should be pasted down and mitred. The whole depth of the turn-in of the covering leather in the joint must not be removed, or it will, be unduly weakened. The mitring line should not come from the extreme corner,

Mitring but rather farther down, and there it is

Comers and we ll to leave a certain amount of overlap

Filling in j n ^ j 0 i n ^ for which purpose the edge

of the turn-in leather and the edge of the

leather joint should be pared thin. After

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