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William Matthews, ONE OF THE WORLD'S FAMOUS BOOK- BINDERS, IN HIS "MODERN BOOKBINDING PRACTICALLY CONSIDERED," RELATES THE FOLLOWING INCIDENT:- "Many years ago an excellent customer of mine, a connoisseur, who thought he knew perfectly well how to handle books, came into my office when I had an expensively bound book just completed, ready to be sent home. Taking the volume in his hand, and holding the leaves tightly together (instead of allowing them full play), he violently opened it in the centre, exclaiming, 'How beautifully your bindings open!' I almost fainted. He had broken the back of the volume, and it had to be rebound." MORAL: Even a well-bound book may be easily ruined at the first opening! SIGNS PUBLISHING COMPANY (A.C.A. LTD., PROPRIETORS) WARBURTON, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA HOW TO OPEN A NEW BOOK Place the book with its back on a table. Let the front cover aown. Then the back cover. Then open a few leaves in front. Then a few at the back, alternating front and back, gently pressing them down until the centre is reached. Do this two or three times in order to limber up the binding. Shculd you open the volume roughly or carelessly, you may break the back and cause the leaves to loosen. NEVER FORCE THE BACK; if it does not readily yield, it is too tightly or strongly lined. It needs gentle treatment, much the same as a machine needs lubricating.

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