page, as an 8vo, 16mo, etc. Folding book forward to the glue wheel, which applies the and wire-stitches them, delivering completed copies is done by hand or by machine. The large daily news- without intermediate handling. glue to the book. From this position the book is moved Many of the magazine… … formerly necessary ly where there are to assemble by hand several books of a and stitch the im- kind, as an edition. mense edition of a One of our illustra- popular __ periodical. tions shows a battery Since that time, how- of Smyth book-sew- ever, machines-of a similar construction have been ing…
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