Word: glue
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...enjoy its annual merry-go-round with the Lampoons this afternoon at 4 o'clock on the second team diamond. At the last moment the cheap-wits have hired a slab-artist who has recently been drawing a salary from the Chelsea Sufferers' Relief Fund. He will be easy glue for the CRIMSON stickers, however...
...folding the sheets, the next that of sewing them together, and this is accomplished by means of the sewing frame, which he described in detail. The whole is now shaped like a wedge, with the thick end towards the back. When hammered flat, the back is stiffened with glue, and the boards are fastened to the book by the projecting ends of the cords on which it was sewed. The leather then is pared to the right degree of thinness, and pasted on, the edges turned over inside, and covered with paper. The binding is now complete...