The subscriber could have the fortnightly magazines bound into volumes at a bookbinder's shop.
The most famous craftsman and artisans were gunsmiths, silversmiths, tinsmiths, copper dishes producers, tailors (terezis), tanners (tabaks), embroiderers, bookbinders, musical instruments producers, pipe-makers, carpenters.
Doublures are protected from wear, compared to the outside of a book, and thus offer bookbinders scope for elaborate decoration.
As well as newspaper proprietors, they were stationers, bookbinders, printers and publishers, ran a circulating library, and sold patent medicines.
The book includes chapters on the following enemies of books: fire, water, gas and heat, dust and neglect, ignorance and bigotry, the bookworm, bookbinders, book collectors, servants, and children.
They comprise such people as the bookbinder, the draper, the ironmonger, the leather goods man and the garage proprietor.
I know of a self-employed bookbinder who uses his exceptional gifts not only to repair and bind books for customers, but to do some remarkable original research.
Human factors also influence swell, especially the force with which the bookbinder bones down, or flattens, each section after sewing.