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No longer interested in their grandparents’ plain black Bibles, younger customers have begun requesting books with sewn binding, environmentally friendly paper, gold gilding and pricey goatskin covers.

With flat-opening sewn binding, however, the pages can bend and rotate freely, allowing the two pages you're reading to sit flat.

Greene has chosen a European-style rounded spine with flat-opening sewn binding.

The compass needle is imagined to stand in for the sewing needle, one of the original tools of bookmaking through the sewn binding of the book’s spine.

I can't make head or tail of the subject matter, but the book is a work of art, with high-quality paper, a sewn binding and elegant old illustrations.