If you will look at this book carefully you will conclude that it would be next to impossible to bind one that would even faintly resemble it. But while I do not want you to believe that you can do a job that would anywhere nearly equal it, you can bind a book good enough so that you will not feel ashamed to let any one see it.
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| THE BOARDS | BOARDS GLUED TO CLOTH | WIDTH OF BOOK |
Fig. 71. how to cut boards and cloth for book binding
Making the Cover.
—First mark out with a rule and then cut out two pieces of pasteboard each of which is just as wide as the book you are going to bind and ¹⁄₄ inch longer as shown at [A in Fig. 71].
Lay these boards on a piece of muslin or calico, or you can buy regular book-binder’s cloth for the purpose[71] and cut it 2 inches wider than the length of the boards and three times as long as the width of one of them as shown at [B].
[71] For book binders’ materials of all kinds send to Thomas Garner and Co., 181 William Street, New York. For book binders’ leather materials address Du Pont Febrikoid Co., Equitable Bldg., New York.
Coat these boards on one side with a good glue laid on thin and glue them to the cloth so that they will be separated from each other by a space ¹⁄₂ an inch wider than the thickness of the book you are binding as shown at [B and C]; this done glue the edges of the cloth over on to the other sides of the boards as shown at [D in Fig. 72].
Fig. 72. sewing on the muslin flap