Manual of Library Economy: Third and Memorial EditionBrown, James Duff
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Manual of Library Economy: Third and Memorial Edition
Brown, James Duff
Libraries -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Library science -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
To be sewn one-sheet-on, on strong tapes; the first and last sheets to
be enclosed at back in linen strips. All sections broken at the back
to be enclosed in linen strips, and neatly overcast, not less than
four stitches to the inch, before being sewn to the tapes. Four tapes
to be allowed for crown 8vos; other sizes in proportion. The tapes to
be firmly secured between the back and front boards, which must be
carefully split to receive them.
In leather-bound books, the backs to be made close and flexible,
without bands, save in cases to be separately notified, but with blind
fillets in imitation of bands. Leathers as specified in schedule, with
smooth cloth sides to match colour of leathers.
SCHEDULE OF PRICES
+-------------------------++------+-------+-----+-----+------+------+
| Sizes. ||Half |Half |Half |Half |Best |Best |
| ||Levant|Persian|Pig- |Roan.|Linen.|Ordi- |
| ||Moroc-|Moroc- |skin.| | |nary |
| ||co. |co. | | | |Cloth.|
+-------------------------++------+-------+-----+-----+------+------+
| Fcap. 8vo (6¼″ × 4″) || | | | | | |
| Crown 8vo (7″ × 4½″) || | | | | | |
| Post 8vo (8″ × 5″) || | | | | | |
| Demy 8vo (9″ × 6″) || | | | | | |
| Medium 8vo (9½″ × 6″) || | | | | | |
| Royal 8vo (10″ × 6½″) || | | | | | |
| Imperial 8vo (11″ × 7½″) || | | | | | |
| Quarto (11″ × 8½″) || | | | | | |
| Folio (13″ × 8″) || | | | | | |
| || | | | | | |
+-------------------------++------+-------+-----+-----+------+------+
| |
| _Prices of other sizes to be in proportion._ |
| |
| Extras: |
| |
| Per inch for folios over thirteen inches. |
| For lettering large initials in classes 800 and 920 . . . per |
| hundred. |
| For mending torn or broken leaves. |
| For guarding plates in linen or jaconet, per dozen. |
| For mounting and dissecting maps, etc., on fine linen, per sq. |
| foot. |
| . . . For extra thickness, if books more than half the |
| width of boards. . . . |
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