This branch of the art of Bookbinding, in large towns, is a distinct business, and presents some difference in the mode of proceeding in several of the manipulations required. These, as in previous parts of the work, will be minutely entered into for the instruction of the young workman, whilst those which are executed in the same manner as directed for printed books, will be merely referred to in the order they will be required to be executed.

Stationery binding includes every description of paper book, from the Memorandum, which is simply covered with marble paper, to the most firm and elaborate bound book used in the counting-house of the merchant and banker. Of the more simple and common bindings, it will not be necessary to enter into minute details, the proceedings being the same as for others, only omitting the more expensive operations, the price allowed making it necessary to bind them in a more simple manner. The first proceeding, should the work require it, will be the

RULING.

This is done by a machine or by the hand. An engraving of the ruling machine will be found in the fifth part of the work. Where an office possesses one, after the pens are adjusted to the proper pattern, the work will be speedily accomplished, and an uniformity presented that no hand ruling can effect. The description given with the engraving will fully explain the mode of operation.