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CHAPTER X

Cutting in Boards--Gilding and Colouring Edges 139

CHAPTER XI

Headbanding 147

CHAPTER XII

Preparing for Covering--Paring Leather--Covering--Mitring
Corners--Filling-in Boards 152

CHAPTER XIII

Library Binding--Binding very Thin Books--Scrap-Books--Binding
in Vellum--Books covered with Embroidery 173

CHAPTER XIV

Decoration--Tools--Finishing--Tooling on Vellum--Inlaying
on Leather 188

CHAPTER XV

Lettering--Blind Tooling--Heraldic Ornament 215

CHAPTER XVI

Designing for Gold-Tooled Decoration 230

CHAPTER XVII

Pasting down End Papers--Opening Books 254

CHAPTER XVIII

Clasps and Ties--Metal on Bindings 259

CHAPTER XIX

Leather 263

CHAPTER XX

Paper--Pastes--Glue 280

PART II

_CARE OF BOOKS WHEN BOUND_

CHAPTER XXI

Injurious Influences to which Books are Subjected 291

CHAPTER XXII

To Preserve Old Bindings--Re-backing 302

SPECIFICATIONS 307

GLOSSARY 313

REPRODUCTIONS OF BINDINGS (Eight Collotypes) 319

INDEX 337

PART I

BINDING

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

The reasons for binding the leaves of a book are to keep them together
in their proper order, and to protect them. That bindings can be made,
that will adequat