It can be used more satisfactorily than the preceding on the sides of books boundin leather or duck.
In the case of books bound in the regular fashion the sewing invariably first gives way at the first and last signatures.
Whether the same processes could be used on books bound in morocco or pigskin is something that has not yet been determined.
It may be used on the sides ofbooks bound in leather; if this be done the corners should be covered with vellum, for this cloth does not withstand hard usage and is likely to fray at the corners.
Books Bound in accordance with Society of Arts recommendations.
Both are extremely pliable, but I think one may safely state that books bound in sheepskin leather, if that leather be from the cross breed, Welsh, or other mountain sheep, will probably outlast calf skin.
Books bound in these materials have been found to show decay in less than 12 months and probably no book bound in these leathers, exposed on a shelf to sunlight or gas fumes, can be expected to last more than five or six years.
Letters in gold are sometimes applied to books bound in cloth by printing them on a very thin piece of leather and then gluing the latter to the back.
If books bound in leather are much handled they last longer than if they stand undisturbed on the shelves, because the oil from the hand helps to keep leather soft, pliable, and alive.
Illustration: Type Cabinet] On books bound in dark cloth or leather, numbers can be written in white ink.
In every large library hundreds of books bound somewhat on these lines may be seen.
Any decoration but the simplest should be restricted to books bound as well as the binder can do them.
There are, indeed, frequent notes in 'Wardrobe Accounts' and elsewhere of books bound in velvet and satin at a date anterior to any now existing, but there is no mention of embroidered work upon them.
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