| Title: | Rounding |
| Original Title: | Endosser |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 5 (1755), p. 650 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Abigail Wendler Bainbridge [West Dean College] |
| Subject terms: |
Bookbinding
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| Citation (MLA): | "Rounding." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Abigail Wendler Bainbridge. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.544>. Trans. of "Endosser," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 5. Paris, 1755. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Rounding." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Abigail Wendler Bainbridge. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0002.544 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Endosser," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 5:650 (Paris, 1755). |
Rounding the book, once its spine is lined in parchment, is to take two boards that one places on either side of the spine, which one calls the shoulder. One puts the book with these boards in the press, taking care that the parchments half stick out from the spine; after which one takes an awl and a small hammer with which one arranges the gatherings of the book, the shoulder quite equal and the spine quite straight. One tightens the press as much as one can, after which one ties the book [1] with a cabled string. See the backing press in our Bookbinding Plates . [2] See also the article Bookbinding .
Translator's Notes
1. Still between the boards.
2. Plate III, Figure 13, although this figure does not depict the boards as having one rounded end as described in the article Ais à Presser . They almost certainly would need this rounded side, which would be the side parallel to and closest to the fore-edge, as this would prevent the edge of the board from impressing the leather.