Page:The Art of Bookbinding, Zaehnsdorf, 1890.djvu/93

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tail, allowing the top and bottom slip to go in the grooves of the trindles. The object of this is to force the back up quite flat, and by holding the book when the cut-against and runner is on it, supported by the other hand under the boards, it can be at once seen if the book is straight or not. The cut-against must be put quite flush with the holes on Diagram of a book help between two boards, which are themselves held between two blocks marked "Press." The pages at the top, the edge of the book have been half trimed, with one side flat.
Section of Book and Press, book partly cut.
the left of the book, and the runner the distance under the holes that the amount of square is intended to be. The book being lowered into the press, the runner is put flush with the cheek of the press and the cut-against just the same distance above the press as the runner is below the holes. The trindles must be taken out from the book when