Workers using a machine for gilding and printing covers for books at the bindery for the Librairies-Imprimerie Réunie.

A different view of the bookbindery of the Librarie-Imprimerie réunie. The machine for gildng and printing bookcovers (shown in the previous photograph) is visible in the back end of the long narrow room.

Workers at the Lenegre bookbindery operating high power presses for printing and embossing book covers in color.

In this drawing of the large scale bindery operated by Librairie Masson the machines visible are mainly the steam engine in the near foreground and a powerful guillotine for trimming pages fairly close behind it. Most of the bindery work appears to be done by hand.