Beating out Joint.—Hammering the back of the section of an old book in order to straighten out the part turned over in the process of backing when first bound. No. 3, page [40].
Blind Tooling.—Putting a design upon the leather with hot tools without using gold leaf.
Boards.—The stiff sides of the cover.
Bone Folder.—A bone tool for folding paper and cloth. No. 3, Plate I.
Buffing.—Thin cowhide used in binding.
Case Binding, or Casing.—Where the book and the cover are made separately and then pasted together. Pages [11] and [14].
Collating.—Gathering together the sections of a book in the proper order.
Cover Paper.—Heavy paper used on the covers of books.
Crowfoot Stitch.—The stitch used at the tapes in Library Binding. a and b, Fig. 21.
Double Boards.—Two boards glued together to make one side of the cover in Library Binding. Fig. 23.