Cost cutting – here the binder of Tract Vol 51 has saved a lot of time by sewing the book “3-up” with one stitch linking 3 sections of the text, certainly an efficiency, but not a robust method of book-binding. This is the sort of detail book historians get excited about and which needs to be preserved despite the practical weaknesses they bring to a binding.
Tract vol 51 “3-up” sewing revealed