Crafts
Page. Fig. 1 Glue-pot for heating by petroleum. 3 Figs. 2 & 3 Holding whilst folding. 15 Fig. 4 Lifting into the Press. 19 Fig. 5 Open sheets laid out for gathering. 20 Fig. 6 Sections fanned out for drawing out. 22 Fig. 7 Sections fanned out for pasting. 23 Fig. 8 Suggestions...
Books reach the bookbinder either in the sheets just as they left the printing press or folded and stitched. This folding and stitching is, of course, part of the binder's work,...
5. CHAPTER IV.The edges of a book are nearly always finished off in some way or another, as the plain white edges would quickly become soiled. As a matter of fact, the binder always uses a co...
1. Chapter XI.--School Books, Mounting Maps, Drawings, &c. 169Page. Fig. 1 Glue-pot for heating by petroleum. 3 Figs. 2 & 3 Holding whilst folding. 15 Fig. 4 Lifting into the Press. 19 Fig. 5 Open sheets laid out for gathering. 20 Fig. 6 S...
11. CHAPTER IX.When the books have been bound they are generally ornamented in gold or in some other way. Although the more elaborate finishing in gold is not done in the ordinary bindery, but...
9. CHAPTER VII.We make a distinction between gold tooling and blind tooling. The latter is simply an impression on the leather or other material without the use of gold, whilst the other is an...
13. CHAPTER XI.The school book, perhaps the most despised branch of work in the bindery, has unjustly come to be treated as a sort of step-child by bookbinder and bookseller. Although everythi...
3. CHAPTER II.Modern books are fastened together by sewing; as a rule thread is used, and always in sewing good books. Thread sewing is very much better than wire stitching. In the first plac...
12. CHAPTER XAccount books are nowadays almost always made by wholesale firms, but there are still, now and then, considerable orders given to medium and small firms for special work; yet it...
10. CHAPTER VIII.For better-class bindings and where hand tooling is to be done the covers are not made in advance as the books are formed and then case and covering made on the book itself. Thi...
8. CHAPTER VI.The boards for making the covers are cut the required size exactly as when cutting for glueing; a packing of thin cardboard or thin wrappers is cut for the back. The width of th...
6. CHAPTER V.The boards for the books are nowadays manufactured from pulp, excepting in a few districts in Pomerania and East Prussia where wood boards are still occasionally made. Of these...
4. CHAPTER III.In nearly all cases the book is trimmed after glueing, and it is best to do this before the glue is quite set. Even in extra work books are nowadays trimmed on three sides, that...
7. PART II.Formerly only one way of making the cover was known, and that was the gradual making of it on the book itself. This has been considerably changed of late owing to the production...