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Inserting Loose Pages

Plates, illustrations or maps are not usually
Required Materials
“bound” in a book, but merely tipped in at
• Mending Brush or Mending Sticks
the binding margin. When a single printed-
• Radiant Bond Glue
page is found loose, it is usually due to a
• Waxed Paper
deliberate willful action or to defective
• Filmoplast P (additional)
®
sewing. In some cases, this condition may
indicate the need for complete resewing.
Where illustrations or plates or single loose
pages are found, they should be tipped in The quickest and most permanent
immediately so there is no danger of their method of tipping in a loose page in
being lost. If inner margin of loose page is a bound book is to use Radiant Bond
®
torn, use a strip of Filmoplast P as a as follows:
“hinge”, applying one half to loose page,
other half to inner margin of next page.
1 Carefully apply Radiant Bond to the
binding edge of the loose page, using
the side of the brush or a mending stick.

2 Next insert the loose page deep into
the “V” opening making certain that
the outer margins are in line with the
other pages.

3 Place Waxed Paper on both sides of
the page, fitting the waxed paper well
to the back of the binding margin.

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