[BKARTS] Query: Binding offprints

[David Amstell <d.amstell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Greetings,

We are binding a dozen or so single-section offprints, from the 1920s, 
into a book for a customer.  Each offprint is bound as a separate 
section.  However, the first and last offprints/sections are shorter 
than the other "sections", by about two inches, or about one inch head 
and tail once bound in. This means that when the endpapers are put on, 
there is a significant space or gap at the head and tail between the 
front ep and the second section, and the rear ep and the penultimate 
section.

The sections have been sewn, the eps laid, and the book block has been 
rounded and backed

Question:  How does one deal with this gap?  Is it filled in with (say) 
a small length of string of equal thickness?  Short of making up small 
stub-sections, and sewing them in clumsily, how can one deal with this 
problem efficiently?

Perhaps someone can shed a little light here.

Thank you.

David 

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