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BOUND PAPER. 



The method of binding paper, which is referred to in the head- 

 ing of this chapter, is an improvement which combines economy 

 with neatness and convenience. A coat of gum-elastic cement 

 is apphed to the edges of the paper on the back of the ream, 

 and over it a sheet of thin gum-elastic vellum for the purpose 

 of a binding. Quire marks are also bound in between the 

 quires or half-quires ; these are either bits of tissue paper or a 

 sheet of paper of another color. It is made yet more conveni- 

 ent at a trifling extra expense, when sheets of blotting-paper are 

 bound between the quires. By this method of putting up paper, 

 the separate quires in the reams are always kept in their place ; 

 each sheet is kept in its place in the quire until wanted, 

 and every inch of paper left in using parts of sheets, is kept 

 bound until taken out ; and while the quire is being used, there 

 is but one half sheet outside or underneath to get soiled. A 

 much more important item in the account of its convenience 

 and utility is, that when a sermon, deed, contract, or other 

 article is written upon the quire, which requires a greater or less 

 number of sheets, the pages may be written consecutively until 

 the deed, or other document, is finished ; and when cut from the 

 ream, the document becomes a bound book of the strongest kind, 

 so far as holding the sheets securely is concerned. The delay 

 and inconvenience of stitching or fastening a document with 

 eyelets is not encountered, which, by the common method, has 

 to be done, if at all, at the last moment of executing a document, 

 when it is most inconvenient, and persons are in the greatest haste. 

 The document bound in this way will He open where it is desired 

 when laid down, and does not give one trouble by its constant 

 shutting ; beside, there is a saving of from one to two inches of 

 paper, because it may be written upon quite to the top of the 

 sheet, there being no margin required, as in the case of fastening 

 by stitching or eyelets. The convenience in the use of this paper 



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