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Show 23 PAPERMAKIN ‘o find carly volumes with cut edges than with the original deckles The weapon with which the binder dealt the most deadly blow was the "plow," with which he cut away the margins, placing th printing in a filse position to the page of the book, and often de No. 14 In a folio volume the sheets were folded in the centre, the chainlines running up and dow nuding the volumes of 2 portion of the very text, In binding books were often trimmed to such an extent that a folio became 2 always be a folio, no matter how much a ruhless or ignoran binder may have cut it down. In the early printed books this trim ming was possible as the margins were purposely left wide for th notes of the readers, so that a folio could have been reduced sevlines invariably ran the short way of the sheet, and the laid-ines the lon way, or from right to left as the mould was held in the hands o the vatman. Tn binding a folio volume the sheets were folded i the centre, the chain-lines running up and down, parallel wich the Digital Imag © 2004 University of Utah. All rights reserved |
