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Updated: May 22, 2025
The cause of a loose signature is generally to be found in a broken thread in the sewing, and the only permanent cure is to take the book out of its cover, and re-sew it, when it may usually be re-inserted in the same binding. This is for cloth-bound books.
Her soft eyes rested on Polly's face. "Oh, I should love them I know I should!" Polly declared. Miss Twining went over to her closet and stooped to a trunk at the end. "There!" she said, putting in Polly's hand a small, cloth-bound volume neatly lettered, "Hilltop Days." The girl opened it at random. Her eye caught a title, and she read the poem through.
Of late Professor Gunn had been severely troubled with headaches, and, this happening to be one of his bad days, he was stopping in his room, with his head bound up in a cloth saturated with camphor. Frank was obliged to rap a second time, and then the professor's shuffling step was heard, and his cloth-bound head appeared as the door opened. "What's wanted?" he asked, sharply.
They are of all prices and all sizes, from the diminutive paper-covered booklet, worth a penny, to the stout cloth-bound octavo volume which costs eight or ten or twelve shillings, or to the gigantic folio county history, the huge repository from which the guide-book maker gets his materials.
"I've never failed but twice to catch a mess here. What d'ye say we eat while we're waiting?" Vainly she protested she was not hungry. He shared his lunch with her with a boy's rigid equity, even to the half of a hard-boiled egg and the half of a big red apple. Still the rockcod did not bite. From under the stern-sheets he drew out a cloth-bound book.
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