ABSTRACT
The frame on which this hand-sewing is done consists of a flat bed of wood, large enough to take a full size folio, raised from the table with batons of wood at each end. Ordinary or “sawn in” sewing is the method that has been most widely adopted for general miscellaneous letterpress work, for well over a century. The form of sewing of a temporary character, generally adopted by the French publishers for their paper-covered publications, is known in this country as “French” sewing. The development of machinery for sewing books has been very extensive in recent years. The main lines on which their inventors have worked, being on the principle of tape sewing, with, perhaps, one great advantage over the hand-sewing method, in so far, that the stitching is interlocked. America has quite produced an over-sewing machine on this principle, and the exhaustive tests made on lending library work have proved its great value.
