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beating hammers
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Note
A heavy, short-handled hammer, with a convex face, used in beating the leaves and sections of a book so as to flatten and compress them. Such hammers generally weigh 10 to 14 pounds (4.5 to 6.3 kg), and sometimes even up to 16 pounds (7.2 kg). The introduction of the rolling machine (1827) made the beating hammer virtually obsolete.
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Peachey (2013)
Jeffrey S. Peachey (2013), "Beating, rolling, and pressing : the compression of signatures in bookbinding prior to sewing", in Suave mechanicals: essays on the history of bookbinding, Ann Arbor (MI), The Legacy Press, pp. 317-381.
Additional Reference
p. 323-324 (modified)
source-reference-607
Source
Etherington & Roberts (1982)
Roberts, Matt, Don Etherington, and Margaret R. Brown. 1982. Bookbinding and the conservation of books: a dictionary of descriptive terminology. Washington: Library of Congress.
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