Good morning on this lovely Thursday.

In the basement of the Congregation Sons of Moses synagogue on the Lower East Side, hulking iron machines rattle and clank amid rolls of colored paper and strips of dark leather.

There, a bookbinder practices a fading craft: stitching, slicing and pressing stacks of paper into books.

With the New York Antiquarian Book Fair starting today on the Upper East Side, we visited the Henry Bookbinding Company in Manhattan to see how books were made in our city’s past.