| Title: | Polishing iron |
| Original Title: | Fer à polir |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 6 (1756), p. 505 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Abigail Wendler Bainbridge [West Dean College] |
| Subject terms: |
Bookbinding
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| Citation (MLA): | "Polishing iron." 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.did2222.0002.546>. Trans. of "Fer à polir," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 6. Paris, 1756. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Polishing iron." 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.did2222.0002.546 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Fer à polir," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 6:505 (Paris, 1756). |
To polish, one uses an iron a foot long, on which there must be a platen five inches long by two wide. This platen must be very smooth; the rest is tail, to be inserted. [1] See the Bookbinding plates . [2] See Polish.
When the book is glaired on the cover, and the egg white is dry, one uses a hot polishing iron, which one passes lightly one or two times on the whole book, to give it some shine.
Translator's Notes
1. In a (wooden) handle
2. Plate III, figure 22. Another perhaps more helpful physical description is given in Louis Sébastian Lenomand, Nouveau Manuel Complet du Relieur . This edition was published in 1900, but Lenomand's original text, much revised and updated here, was published in 1827.